northeast-flora-and-fauna

Here's a Sulphur-winged Grasshopper I met last spring. Or at least that's the ID I got from iNaturalist (and it seems to be a reasonable ID). I got a pretty good picture of this individual, and although I'd have liked to have gotten different angles, grasshoppers are rarely cooperative and are very good at flying off when I try and maneuver around them. Sulphur-winged Grasshoppers are, unfortunately, more than a little variable in appearance . Admittedly they don't look like puppies or woodpeckers, but their coloring isn't especially uniform. I do see some faint banding on the rear leg femur, and there is a yellow ring around the rear leg tibia. The head might look a little boxier than some other grasshoppers, but I'm not sure you can see the pronotum (a saddle-like shield just behind the head) well enough to help with the identification. If I had a picture of the grasshopper with its wings open, and if we saw a sulphur-colored band on those wings, this identif...