Orthoptera Gallery

A Selection of Museum Specimens

Specimens here include an Entomological tray of insect from the order Orthoptera, a herbarium sheet from Cook's first voyage collected in New South Wales, Australia in 1770 and fish specimens

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10713881

1743 1820, 18th Century, Animal, Animals, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Banks, Black Background, Dried, Entomology, Fish, Fishes, Herbarium, Hexapod, Hexapoda, Historic, Historical, Insect, Insecta, Insects, Invertebrata, Invertebrate, Jar, Museum, Orthoptera, Orthopteran, Preserved, Selection, Sheet, Shell, Sir Joseph

Giant or Hedge grasshopper (Valanga irregularis)

Giant or Hedge grasshopper (Valanga irregularis), Australia's largest grasshopper, females between 60 and 75 mm long. North West Island, Capricornia Cays National Park, Capricorn-Bunker Group, Queensland, Australia

© Attila Bicskos Kaszo / AUSCAPE All rights reserved

Acrididae, Australia Insects, Australia Wildlife, Females Larger, Grasshoppers, Great Barrier Reef Insects, Hoppers, Insects, Locusts, Orthoptera, Sexual Dimorphism, Sexually Dimorphic

A Common Milkweed Locust at London Zoo, May 1927 (b/w photo)

3474495 A Common Milkweed Locust at London Zoo, May 1927 (b/w photo) by Bond, Frederick William (1887-1942); Zoological Society of London; A© Zoological Society of London ; British, out of copyright

© © Zoological Society of London / Bridgeman Images

Animal, Animals, Common Milkweed Locust, Insect, Insects, Invertebrate, Invertebrates, Locust, Locusts, London Zoo, Mzphoto, Natural History, Nature, Orthoptera, Photograph, Photography, Phrymateus Morbillosus, Pyrgomorphidae, Wildlife, Zoology, Zoos