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I visited RSPB Bar Mouth Hide - at the mouth of the river Bann for the first time today, the surrounding wetlands are great.
Instagram user @Martyd999 had spotted some Grasshopper warblers there the day before and thought it would be worth a visit. A kindly RSPB ranger pointed me to the right locale.
From RSPB:
Key information
The high, insect-like reeling song of the grasshopper warbler is the best clue to its presence. Even when you hear one it can be difficult to locate it due to the ventriloquial effect of its singing. If seen on migration it moves like a little mouse, creeping through the foliage. Dramatic population declines have made this a Red List species.
What they eat:
Insects
Measurements:
Length:12.5-13.5cm
Wingspan:15-19cm
Weight:11-16g
UK breeding:16,000 pairs
This is a three shot focus stack of a grasshopper on a daisy in my front yard. Handheld, and stacked using Zerene.
This is on the same wall as I took the photo of the tiny baby grasshopper a few weeks ago.
I would like to think it's baby all growed up !
We had great fun yesterday watching all the grasshopper nymphs leaping about in the grass! This one was alittle more sedate though and I managed to get a shot!
Did you know that grasshoppers are packed with protein? People have been consuming them for centuries! They would be an important nutritional source if you ever need to use your survival skills.
Another tiny specimen. I was sweeping tall grass with a butterfly net and discovered a million different types of tiny insects! It was pretty fun sorting through them all, picking out the really interesting ones!
Suffolk County, NY
I photographed this singing Grasshopper Sparrow along the Cedar Valley Nature Trail a few weeks ago while I was looking for the Yellow-breasted Chat. No Chat was seen on that day but a Grasshopper Sparrow was still a nice find. They, like other prairie birds, have seemingly increased in the county this year. I didn't see any Grasshopper Sparrows in Black Hawk County last year, but this year I've already seen seven or so separate individuals.
A grasshopper that came through the window, so it was taken outside, managed to get a few frames off before it walked off.
eastern lubber grasshopper or just lubber grasshopper, is a grasshopper native to the southeastern and south central portion of the United States. It is the most distinctive grasshopper species within the southeastern United States, and is well known both for its size and its unique coloration. It can reach nearly 3 inches (8 cm) in size.
Romalea guttata goes through several stages, like all insects. When in the nymph stage, it is smaller than in the adult stage, wingless and completely black with one or more yellow, orange or red stripes. In the adult stage, they reach 2.5–3 in (64–76 mm), grow wings half the length of their body and become either a dull yellow often characterized by black spots and markings, a bright orange with black markings, or entirely black (as in the nymph stage) with yellow or red striping. In the black adult color phase, the grasshopper is widely known by the name "diablo" or "black diablo". In Louisiana, they are known as the "Devil's horse" or "cheval-diable". The insect is also colloquially known as a "graveyard grasshopper". In Mississippi they are known as "giant locust".
I think this is a grasshopper (in the widest sense of the name) rather than a cricket or a katydid, but I could well be wrong! Any help with an ID would be welcome.
Tarapoto tunnel area, San Martin, Peru
Assumption Chapel in Cold Spring, Minnesota also known as the Grasshopper Chapel. The chapel was built in less than a month in 1877 and credited for relieving a years long grasshopper infestation in Minnesota.
Photographed in the community gardens in Shelby Farms Park.
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Another shot from my trip to France last week. This shot was taken just before sunset at a ruined castle in the town of Thann in the Alsas. I promise I'll get round to posting some shots of the castle as well as the insects!
Common Green Grasshopper, Omocestus viridulus.
14–23mm.
Usually seen from April and into November.
The female is always dorsally green but males can be olive-brown and possess a noticeably long ovipositor. They never have any red or orange on the abdomen. They are winged and can fly well, but wings never exceed the end of the body and they have a strongly darkened region of the hind wing. Lines on the shoulders are in-curved and marked white or cream and the eyes of this species may be either brown or yellow. These are characteristics that help distinguish it from the similar Woodland Grasshopper, Omocestus rufipes, which is restricted to southern England.
Typically lives in moderately wet regions around Europe except north of the Arctic Circle and is distributed widely over Britain. Their preferred habitat consists of areas with longer grass.
Songs are produced by a process called stridulation in which the hind leg and wing are rubbed together. Calling songs are used in order to attract and find a mate. Although most of the singing is done by the males, females that are ready to mate may also sing in response.
There is one generation per year and the life cycle begins with the females laying a clutch of eggs in the top layer of soil or near the root of the grass stalks. The young nymphs emerge the following April and resemble miniature versions of the adults, but with immature wings. After about a month of moulting their exoskeleton several times, they mature into adults with working wings.
A grasshopper in the garden at The Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in Columbia, SC. The flower is hibiscus. (Also see LARGE SIZE.)
A "leftover" garden shot that I had previously skipped, but find myself liking enough now to post up... :-) This one is probably a fourth of fifth instar two-striped grasshopper.
Usual suspects: Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 Macro plus Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Yongnuo YN-560 III flash. I believe this was shot with the lens at or near MFD, so about 2:1, and I only cropped the width of the frame. Still wish there was a second pseudo-pupil on this one, and I also evened up the exposure of the eyes a bit...
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Today was another day when it was warmer outside than inside the house, so I wandered around the garden. It is pretty boring these days due to the cold weather, but I did spy a tiny grasshopper on the African Daisies.
Found at Bauer Brockway Barrens SNA in west central Wisconsin. Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA.
Maybe Melanoplus bivittatus - Two-striped Grasshopper? A large grasshopper.
Found perching on sand in open sandy area near creek in pine barrens habitat.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.