Grasshoppers are insect herbivores from Caelifera suborder within the order Orthoptera . Insects have antennae that are almost always shorter than his body and also has the ovipositor short. Sound generated several species of grasshoppers are usually produced by rubbing the femur back towards the front wing or the abdomen (called stridulasi ), or because of flapping its wings while flying. Femur length and strength behind it is generally suitable for jumping. Insects are generally winged , although the wings sometimes can not be used to fly. Female locusts typically larger than the male grasshopper. In Islam, Grasshopper is one of the two animals that have been first if death is still permissible to eat, along with fish .

Teamwork

Prachaup Khiri Khan, Thailand

Small insect on the go

Plume moth. Focus stacked using zerene

red common darter in Ashington woods taken yesterday

First honey bee of 2014. Feeding on some sugar/honey syrup on a camellia leaf. Yes that's my finger underneath.

Applied Wavelet Noise reduction to this with pleasing results

I wish i could explain how my joy knew no bounds after clicking these pics with the constant fear of a bee which was sitting on the same plant.

Visited my brother who happens to have a small wood with ponds at the bottom of the garden.

My first scorpion fly :)

This Dragon fly taken at Hessaragatta Lake with my New 70-300 Telephoto zoom Lens.

In Flight, Nikon with a 300mm lens- I was asked to post these - i had used them in a mosaic

A Japanese Mushi Kago (Insect Cage) made sometime around the 1960s, displayed here with a Bamboo Cricket inside to show the scale.

The last August I was in Europe for vacations, it was a trip where I visited a lot of friends that I didn’t see since I left Barcelona around 6 years before. One of my friends, Luz, is living in Hamburg, and I went to visit her from Colonia by train. She was waiting for me in the Hamburg main train station when we met, she asked me to go to her home walking from the train station through a big park to her place; of course, I said yes. When we were in the park in a singular moment I looked towards the ground and I saw this amazing and beautiful insect with a special drawing on it back; it looks like an Africa tribe's Shaman mask. My friend asked me how I could saw it on the ground if that insect was so tiny, and I said to her because I felt that something was looking at me.

Marcelo.

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Nikon 1 V1

I did it...lol..caught him...even it wasn't easy...lol

Diptera : Syrphidae

Book Caption: Sphecomyia vittata (Diptera : Syrphidae) This is a fly that mimics a wasp. It is about the same size as Vespula sp. wasps. I knew that this was a fly and not a wasp because I noticed the halteres. Only flies have halteres. Flies have 1 pair of wings, where as wasps have 2 pairs of wings.

La nature, la plus grande exposition photographique au monde

Nature, the largest photographic exhibition in the world

La naturaleza, la exposición fotográfica más grande del mundo

Well, I never knew flies 'cocked' their leg. ;-))

View LARGE On Black

Who can resist to photograph those shiny green eyes?

ヒラタアブの仲間(Syphini species)

The insect cannot act when the temperature is low.

Black ants and aphids on hibiscus seed pods

Took a photo of this weird scary insect I saw in Tagaytay

a Nalassus laevioctostriatus beetle, one of five seen under bark of a fallen tree in Battle Great Wood

Thanks to Rockwolf for confirmation of id.

I think these are hawthorn shield bugs - Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale

SEE ORIGINAL--- Bumble bee buzzing around our porch. Shot many pictures. This was cropped from an image as small a the head on this bee.

Hoverfly Xylota segnis on mollis azalea flower- a rare visitor to the garden. Focus stacked using zerene

Sun just popped out and this painted lady dropped in :-) Things are looking up

A very co-operative dragonfly. They are only about 1 1/2 " long, and the warm sunshine was too hard to resist for it!