After a wet winter, grasshoppers seen more often in Arizona. The high-jumping critter is expected to disappear by mid-June.
TUCSON, Ariz. — If you have noticed an increasing amount of grasshoppers jumping around outside— you are not alone. After a wet winter, grasshoppers have invaded Southern Arizona.
Local entomologists say the pallid-winged grasshopper is the most common kind we are seeing here at home, but grasshoppers aren’t technically even a bug, they are called orthopteras. As we approach the warmer and drier months, grasshoppers don’t have much vegetation to feed off of and will eventually leave by mid-June. Grasshoppers are also harmless to us humans and won’t bite, instead they eat plants
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