Date: 3/30/99

Time: 8:25

Type: Symposium

Number: 102

Effects of standard prairie management pracitices on the Saltatorial Orthoptera

*G.M. Fauske, Department of Entomology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
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Beginning in mid-1995, transects were placed on three prairie sites in western Minnesota to study the effects of various prairie management practices (burning, haying, grazing, and no-management) on northern tallgrass prairie arthropod communities. Differing habitat regimes such as sand, dry, mesic, and wet prairies were chosen as study sites. This portion of the project examined the effects on the saltatorial Orthoptera. A total of 45 species of saltatorial Orthoptera were found. No site contained all of the species. The greatest number of species (36) were found on dry prairie in a burning regime; the least number of species were found on the dry prairie under grazing (14) or under a no-management regime (12). Only four species occurred on all sites.

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