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Grasshopper in the late afternoon.
Sprinkhaan genietend van de late namiddag zon op uitgebloede bloementakje.
I don't know what type of grasshopper it is (there are so many of them!), but it was very small, about 1,5 - 2 cm. long and I took this shot on the meadow by the forest :)
See it LARGE &On Black - looks much better!
The horse lubber, Taeniopoda eques, is a large grasshopper from the Sonoran Desert of the US Southwest and northern Mexico. The coloration is considered aposematic and "warns vertebrate predators of its unpalatability and allows the grasshopper to roost conspicuously upon desert shrubs."--Wikipedia
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Bokeh Wednesday
Haven't seen many of these around this year. I think this is a Red Legged Grasshopper.
The grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper. Species that change color and behavior at high population densities are called locusts.
Differential Grasshopper (Melananoplus differentialis).
Cedar Hill State Park. Cedar Hill, Texas.
Dallas County. 30 September 2018.
Nikon D500. Nikkor AF-S 300mm f4E ED PF VR + TC-14e III teleconverter.
(420mm) f11 @ 1/640 sec. ISO 1000.
This grasshopper was pretty big, at least as long as my index finger. It wasn't going to allow me a flat-on angle for max focus of that long body though - more flower got in the way. I tried nudging it like I get away with sometimes nudging my mantises. What a dope - last part of this guy's name is "hopper". Duh. Luckily I gave in and went for the head shot before I tried the nudge approach. It really was about the 'hopper's snout deep in the white flower anyway, seemed to be happily munching away.