May 26, 2026

I am an Atlantic Grasshopper

I like to stay in a semi aquatic place

My antennae are usually shorter than my hind femora

And I have a weirdly skeleton like face. 

Location: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park

Sources: https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/5004

Photo and text © 2026 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

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December 26, 2021

I am an Atlantic Grasshopper

You can tell by the length of my antenae

They are twice the length of my pronotum - 

A part of my body not known to many. 

(Click the link below to see where the pronotum is located. In genera, it's the little shield like thing over the first part of the thorax, just after his head.)

Location: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, Fellsmere

Sources: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/ghopper/spur3.pdf

https://animalcorner.org/grasshopper-body-anatomy/

Photo and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

November 15, 2021

I am an Atlantic Grasshopper

You can tell cause my antennae are shorter

Than other grasshopper species

And my body is about the length of a quarter.

Location: Kissimmee Prairie State Park

Sources: https://bugguide.net/node/view/5004

Photo and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

July 22, 2021

I am an Atlantic Grasshopper

My antenna are twice as long as my pronotum

Oops, Dee's got herself in a bind

Trying to find 

A rhyme for "pronotum" to end this poem!

Location: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, Fellsmere

Sources: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/ghopper/spur3.pdf (scroll down to page 59)

Photo and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson