The pinkwinged grasshopper attacks a wide variety of cultivated plants including broccoli, celery, Chinese and other cabbages, garden beans, green beans, head cabbage, onions, pineapple, potato, spinach, and tomato, as well as many other weeds and garden plants. This grasshopper is not a grass feeder. This pest is known to the Pacific and Asia regions in countries such as Australia, China, Japan and New Guinea. It is an immigrant species to Hawaii first reported in 1900 and is now present on all major Hawaiian islands. If the feeding is extensive enough, the produce may be unmarketeable.
Defoliation occurs infrequently.
The complete life cycle from egg to adult takes about 5 months. Each mass contains 27-38 dull yellowish eggs. The immature pinkwinged grasshoppers are similar in appearance to the adult. The different color forms appear during the second nymphal stage. Males have five molts or stages and the females' six.