4 FARMERS’ BULLETIN 147. 
Wyoming and South Dakota to New Mexico and Texas. It is known 
to injure seriously corn, kafir, alfalfa, and grasses of various kinds. 
The Florida lubber grasshopper (fig. 2) is a clumsy insect, often 
reaching the length of more than 2} inches, and is correspondingly 
robust. It is 
usually — yel- 
lowish in 
color, pret- 
tily marked 
with black, 
and its short 
and nearly 
useless wings 
are more or 
less distinetly 
stained with 
a bright 
crimson color. It inhabits the southern United States from North 
Carolina to Texas and has been especially injurious throughout 
the newly reclaimed regions in the State of Florida. It has been 
found to attack corn, : 
grasses, sorghum, 
cowpeas, soy beans, 
and other crops. 
The differential 
grasshopper (fig. 3) 
is usually a yellow- 
ish-colored insect 
with clear glassy 
hind wings, aver- 
aging nearly 1} 
inches in length. Its 
hind legs are usually 
distinctly marked 
with yellow’ and 
black, the colors ar- 
ranged in chevron- 
shaped bars on the 
sides of the thighs. 
Fic. 2.—Florida lubber grasshopper (Dictyophorus reticulatus) : Adult 
female. Natural size. (Webster.) 
‘ Fic. 3.—Differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis) : 
It 1s found through- Above, adult male; below, adult female. Twice natural 
size. (Original.) 
out nearly the entire 
United States, although of rare occurrence in the Atlantic States. 
This grasshopper is chiefly injurious in the middle western and 
southwestern States, and is known to attack the following cereal and 
forage crops: Corn, sorghum, oats, wheat, bluegrass, soy beans, 
clover, and alfalfa. 
