Kansas Flint Hills
Flint Hills Discovery Center
Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan, KS
Flint Hills highway cut
Flint Hills highway cut showing the limestone strata with interspersed flint (chert).
Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse
Lower Fox Creek schoolhouse, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Flint Hills, Kansas
Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse
Lower Fox Creek schoolhouse, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Flint Hills, Kansas
Lower Fox Creek School
Lower Fox Creek School, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Prairie acacia
Prairie acacia (Acacia angustissima), Flint Hills, Kansas
Ohio Spiderwort
Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis), Flint Hills, Kansas
Two-striped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas
Two-striped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas
Probable M. foedus
According to Dave Ferguson, ""Color pattern looks like M. foedus. However, blue hind tibiae on that species in Kansas would be rare, usually the hind tibiae are red (other colors occur though, and sometimes one leg will be red and other blue). The other options is that she is a very pale M. packardii. They usually have blue hind tibiae in Kansas, but also usually a much stronger dark pattern. The only way to be certain with a questionable one is to have a male in hand, and to look at the aedeagus."
Two-striped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas
Two-striped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas
Two-striped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas
Two-striped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas
Two-sriped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas
Two-striped grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas - nymph (above), adult (below)
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
Upland Sandpiper
Upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
