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A grasshopper rests on some Carolina thistle at the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
I went outside today and on the car was this grasshopper. So what else does one do but go back into the house and get the camera. I wish the antenna were better, but I'm reasonably pleased with the result. This is my first grasshopper.
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.
The rare large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum). Dorset, UK.
Our largest grasshopper at up to 4cm. Strong flyers. They make a distinctive loud clicking noise.
With thanks to Chris.
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.
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
The Grasshopper And The Ants (1934) is a fable attributed to Aesop, providing a moral lesson about hard work and preparation.
The fable concerns a grasshopper who has spent the warm months singing away while the ants worked to store up food for winter. When winter arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger, and upon asking the ant for food is only rebuked for its idleness. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and saving, and the perils of improvidence. Some versions of the fable state a moral at the end, along the lines of: "Idleness brings want", "To work today is to eat tomorrow" or "It is best to prepare for the days of necessity".
"Happier" versions of the fable show the ants taking pity and giving the grasshopper some food, on the premise that turning the grasshopper away in his time of need is also morally questionable. A prime example is the 1934 animated short subject produced by Walt Disney. The Queen of the Ants decrees that the grasshopper may stay in the ant colony, but he must play his fiddle in return for his room and board. He agrees to this arrangement, and the ant tunnels become a grand ballroom where all the ants happily dance to the music of the grasshopper, who finally learns that he needs to make himself useful.