Guide to the Grasshoppers of Wisconsin

Kathryn Kirk and Charles R. Bomar

This guide provides the first comprehensive treatment of Wisconsin acridids and includes keys for identification of species, full color plates, maps of known species distributions, descriptions of habitats occupied, and comments on taxonomy, life history, and ecology of the individual species. The conservation status of each species is also assesed by listing its state rank.

This 150-page booklet provides the first ever comprehensive up-to-date reference for all Wisconsin grasshopper species.

Front cover: Melanoplus differentialis differentialis
Photo by Franziska Lang
© Franziska Lang, 2003.
Used with permission.

This guide provides the first comprehensive treatment of Wisconsin acridids and includes keys for identification of species, full color plates, maps of known species distributions, descriptions of habitats occupied, and comments on taxonomy, life history, and ecology of the individual species. The conservation status of each species is also assesed by listing its state rank.

Guide to the Grasshoppers of Wisconsin by Kathryn Kirk and Charles R. Bomar is available free of charge from the Wisconsin DNR through the Bureau of Integrated Science Services. To obtain free copies please contact Martin Griffin, Science Communications Manager, at 608.266.0842 or Martin.Griffin@wisconsin.gov.

Please note that the Guide to the Grasshoppers of Wisconsin (Other/Miscellaneous Publication #1008) is now out of print. The information contained in this guide can only be obtained via the links from the list below as PDF files.

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