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May/June 2002 issue	In this issue Table of Contents Editor’s Notebook Inside Story Feature: Grasshoppers À la carte Mosaic Reverberations

Friend or foe? | It’s a bug’s life | Grasshopper facts | Grasshopper anatomy
Grasshoppers on film | Nature’s symphony | Literary hoppers | Archives

The clicks, clacks and buzzes of grasshoppers in flight are as much a part of summer as lemonade and holiday picnics. Nature recording enthusiast Doug Von Gausig kindly made these sound files available to our website for your pleasure.

This is the sound made when a beautiful red-winged grasshopper (Arphia pseudonietana) with flashy red wings, takes flight. It clicks loudly like this as it flies, sometimes for 10-15 seconds at a time.
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Pallid-winged grasshoppers (Trimerotropis pallidipennis) are common summer grasshoppers. They’re small, brown and tan mottled grasshoppers. This is the sound of their flight, which you will probably find familiar.
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Sounds provided by and copyrighted to Naturesongs.com, 2002.

Photos courtesy of Dan Johnson.

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