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This grasshopper (Coryphistina) made a single leap from the bonnet of the car onto the trunk of this stringybark. Very well camouflaged. Coryphistina on a stringbark. Mt Kaputar National Park, NSW Australia. January 2009.
A grasshopper that I found on the wing mirror of my car and brought home for a photo shoot. Fortunately he was quite lethargic and only really moved when I gave him a nudge.
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Another Grasshopper I found in Croatia. Felt uncomfortable lying under this 5 cm long insect to get a good shot, but where satisfied with the result.
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
by John Keats
The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead
In summer luxury,--he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
I know it's a dull little brown job but it is quite scarce and elusive, and this is the first opportunity I have ever had to photograph one completely in the open. It was singing from sand dunes near Bamburgh in Northumberland and kept moving its song post from bush to bush. This is an old Elderberry bush with dead twigs at the top. There were other Grasshopper Warblers nearby so it seemed to make them more competitive and bolder. They often sing from deep within undergrowth, so the song is heard far more often than the birds are actually seen. In fact, most bird watchers never see them outside the spring period when they sing. Singing is pushing the definition to its limits as it sounds like an old fashioned alarm clock when the bells have been muffled, a mechanical dry reeling sound. They also sing mainly at dusk and dawn.
Anita checks out the galley. Two burners and a sink. Even an ice box. The ice box may get replaced for storage.
A grasshopper that I caught in our front garden. This was photo was created using a focus stack of 47 photos taken using a Schneider f2.8 40mm APO lens reverse mounted using bellows. Lighting was from a diffused flash.
Grasshoppers have antennae that are generally shorter than their body and short ovipositors. They also have pinchers or mandibles that cut and tear off food.[1] Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdomen (stridulation), or by snapping the wings in flight. Tympana, if present, are on the sides of the first abdominal segment. The hind femora are typically long and strong, fitted for leaping. Generally they are winged, but hind wings are membranous while front wings (tegmina) are coriaceous and not fit for flight. Females are normally larger than males, with short ovipositors. Males have a single unpaired plate at the end of the abdomen. Females have two pairs of valves ( triangles) at the end of the abdomen used to dig in sand when egg laying.
They are easily confused with the other sub-order of Orthoptera, Ensifera (crickets), but are different in many aspects, such as the number of segments in their antennae and structure of the ovipositor, as well as the location of the tympana and modes of sound production. Ensiferans have antennae with at least 20-24 segments, and caeliferans have fewer. In evolutionary terms, the split between the Caelifera and the Ensifera is no more recent than the Permo-Triassic boundary (Zeuner 1939)
Not Sure what these are called but it looks like a grasshopper but Haven't seen one like it before. Janet saw this and we both tried to grab a few photos of it before it took off.
Found out it is a Katydid Instar
Grasshoppers have had a long relationship with humans. Swarms of locusts have had dramatic effects that have changed the course of history, and even in smaller numbers grasshoppers can be serious pests. They are eaten as food and also feature in art, symbolism and literature. Wikipedia
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July 22, 2016
A rusty brown grasshopper. Not yet identified. (Oedipodinae) species?
Village Creek Drying Beds. Arlington, Texas.
Tarrant County. 29 July 2018.
Olympus E-P5. Panasonic Lumix G Vario 45-200mm f4-5.6 II.
(200mm) f9 @ 1/320 sec. ISO 1250.
Tentative ID, correction or confirmation welcomed. KN
My experience of Grasshopper Warblers is that they usually sing from cover, and drop even deeper into cover if anyone approaches, but here in Northumberland they seem to be showy and confiding. This one flew into a Hawthorn bush where I was standing and proceeded to sing for ages in full view. I managed to find four different individuals in a short walk this morning. They are called Grasshopper Warblers because their song is supposed to sound like an insect. To my ears it is more like a bicycle wheel. Its scientific name is Locustella naevia, the first name is because of its similarity to an insect, while neavia means freckled, and you can see the subtle freckled markings on its upperparts here.
I snapped this on the grounds of the Anjajavy l'Hotel. www.worldprimatesafaris.com/ planned an amazing trip for us!
The grasshopper drone is an unpiloted forward attack bug. It leaps across the front lines, fires a couple of plasma bursts at the enemy, and then leaps back. Can be either remotely controlled, or pre-programmed. Unlike a real grasshopper, this drone is incapable of sustained flight - it just jumps really high.