Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Grasshopper eggs in the sand

During the heat of the summer you may find male grasshoppers performing for females in open patches of ground. Well camouflaged males flash their colorful under-wings and make a distinctive “song” by rubbing their hind legs together (stridulation). When mates are selected, the eggs are fertilized and buried in the soil where they incubate until emerging as nymphs.

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