Table 6 

 Animal Foods Eaten by the Ruffed Grouse in the Northeast 



Scientific and Common Names 



Eaten by 



References 



Phylum Arthropoda 

 Class Hexapoda 

 Order Orthoptera 

 Gryllidae (Crickets) 

 Gryllus assimilis 

 (sp.) 

 Acrididae (Shorthomed grasshoppers) 

 Melanoplus femur-rubrum 

 Unidentified 

 Locustidae ( Longhorned grasshoppers ) 

 Xiphidiujn (sp.) 

 Unidentified 

 Phasmidae (Walking sticks) 

 Diapheromera femorata 



Order Neuroptera 

 Chrysopidae (Lace wing flies) 

 Chrysopa (sp.) 



Adult 

 Adult 



Adult 



Adult and young 



Adult 



Adult and young 



Adult 



Young 



Gross 

 Judd 



Judd 



Smyth 



Judd 

 Judd 



Smyth 



N. Y. S. Cons. 

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