File:American Bird Grasshopper.jpg to appear as POTD soon edit

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:American Bird Grasshopper.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on December 10, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-12-10. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 18:19, 9 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

The American Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca americana) is one of the about 50 species of bird grasshopper. Many of these swarm as locusts, the best known of which is probably the desert locust (S. gregaria).Photo: Tom Friedel