Flag for Taxon: Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bouteloua | Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum) |
overconfident computer vision suggestion? |
Oct. 24, 2019 17:18:07 +0000 | bouteloua |
see link to help with ID |
Comments
Similar situation to Gryllus pennsylvanicus - M. femmurrubrum IS the most common Melanoplus IME, so usually the computer vision will be right. But there are a lot of less common Melanoplus that the computer vision could get wrong.
@tgrant999 The most common Melanoplus is quite the opposite to me. I'm coming my 4th year of documenting Orthopterans in the Pacific Northwest, and about 80% of the males I've captured in the femurrubrum species complex are M. sanguinipes. Though based on iNaturalist reporting, these proportions do a 360 once you go west of the Cascades.
"suggested for many different grasshoppers. Usually quite hard to reliably ID most Melanoplus below genus from photos except with male cercus showing."