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The flightless alpine grasshoppers\n                    <jats:italic>Sigaus australis,<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">\n                      <jats:italic>S. nitidus<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:styled-content>\n                    and\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">\n                      <jats:italic>S. nivalis<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:styled-content>\n                    are sympatric and abundant in the mountains of South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. We investigated whether their diets differ among locations, species and sexes, and whether the plants that they ate had changed over 50\u2009years. Mandible morphology of the grasshopper species was compared to infer diet adaptation. Their diet was analysed using gut samples collected from 1969 to 1971 and 2021 to 2023. Despite differences in mandibles suggesting potential adaptation to food plants of different sizes and toughness, we found greater diet differences among locations than among grasshopper species or between sexes. All three\n                    <jats:italic>Sigaus<\/jats:italic>\n                    grasshoppers consume a wide range of plants. Considered as a guild, we found the diet of these grasshoppers was influenced by local environment and season, but that they did not feed at random. Shrubs and herbs including\n                    <jats:italic>Gaultheria<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Lobelia<\/jats:italic>\n                    were favoured, but the abundant\n                    <jats:italic>Chionochloa<\/jats:italic>\n                    grasses were avoided. Despite narrow seasonality, fruits and flowers were also important dietary components. Invasive plants including\n                    <jats:italic>Hieracium, Pilosella<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Taraxacum<\/jats:italic>\n                    that were rare or absent in the diet 50\u2009years earlier had been eaten by 92% of the grasshoppers sampled in 2021\u20132023. 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