Most grasshoppers are basically reddish brown or yellow with variously colored markings.
Often the size of kernels of rice, eggs may be white, yellow-green, tan, or various shades of brown depending on the species. This area consists of a band from Montana to Minnesota, southward into New Mexico and Texas. Grasshoppers normally feed on a wide variety of row crops and range grasses, as well as forage legumes and grasses. They do not feed on the grasses of a well kept lawn except when grasshoppers are very numerous and other forage is scarce. During particularly dry weather, grasshoppers may infest turf grasses.