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.

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.

The complete book [PDF, 17MB] can also be downloaded.

However, to facilitate download times and ease of use we have also made the book available as several PDF files, so that you may choose and download sections at your convenience.