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Chorthippus parallelus, the meadow grasshopper, is a common species of grasshopper found in non-arid grasslands throughout the well vegetated areas of Europe and some adjoining areas of Asia.
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This was the smallest and most adorable grasshopper that I've ever found. It was about 5 or 6 mm long. Photographed in Maryland today.
Grasshopper
A grasshopper visiting our garden and landing om blue flowers.
I think (please correct me if it's wrong) it's a in latin Tettigonia cantans or in dutch kleine Groene sabelsprinkhaan and in english a Small Green Bush-Cricket
These will not sit still and if you approach them they will keep moving away. One works up much persperation when photographing these in summer. I wanted to include what they look like when born for to see the comparison of changes in their body patterns amazing to me.As you can see this one's wings are still not fully developed so it can't fly but when I tapped it with my finger it spread what it had of them
The 2nd (and probably last) grasshopper image. I wanted one in colour and one in black and white.. Job Done!
Appropriately for this species, grasshoppers are the primary prey. Adults prepare grasshoppers for chicks by removing the legs of the insects, vigorously shaking them off pair by pair.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is probably the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.