Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Entomology

Packard Grasshopper

Melanoplus packardii Scudder

Table 1. Population fluctuations (in number per square yard) of grasshoppers in a mixedgrass prairie site of eastern Wyoming (Platte County).

	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974
Melanoplus packardii	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	P	0.2
Ageneotettix deorum	3.4	2.2	0.8	1.2	0.8	1.3	3.3
Assemblage of 19 species	12.8	6.1	2.9	5.6	4.0	3.3	10.5

P = present but not found in 200 1-square foot samples.

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