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A grasshopper in a perfect camouflage of a green leaf. In nature this katydid sitting among identical leaves would be impossible to recognise.
Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish them from bush crickets or katydids, they are sometimes referred to as short-horned grasshoppers. Species that change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts.
Once-upon-a-time there were a Grasshopper and an Ant. The Ant was very industrious and worked hard all summer to gather food. The Grasshopper on the other hand was always playing music. One day the ant stopped and scolded the Grasshopper for not working to gather any food.
"You're going to be very hungry when winter comes!" the ant said. But the Grasshopper kept right on playing music.
"It's what I do." said the Grasshopper as he tried to explain that he wasn't cut out to do work like other folks.
"Do what you want," said the Ant, "But you'll be screwed when winter comes."
"What tune would you like to hear?" the grasshopper asked.
"Do you know anything by 50 Cent?" the ant responded, and so the grasshopper played Candy Shop while the Ant worked.
When winter started, the ant felt sorry for the Grasshopper and went to invite him to the Ant's house for food, but the Grasshopper wasn't there. The Ant later found out that the Grasshopper had hit it big with a cover of a Barry Manilow song, Mandy. He was on a world tour and wouldn't be back until spring. Amazing, thought the Ant.
But the Grasshopper couldn't finish the tour because of substance abuse problems and had to come back early. The Grasshopper moved in with the Ant and bought big screen plasma tv to watch football games on. The Grasshopper was still collecting royalties and had a pile of money that allowed him to avoid work until he finally overdosed on heroin. The Ant lived happily everafter eeking out an existance doing menial labor.
These grasshoppers have been appearing all over town. Read the full story at GSG Blog.
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More Orthopterans of Malaysia: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2013/02/orthoptera-of-malaysia....
This Grasshopper Sparrow popped up for a few songs on a dewy, Spring morning earlier this year. He, of course, was on the wrong side of the sun; so, I dialed back the exposure and tried exposing for the highlighted dew along the edge of the plant.
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Grasshopper Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler sings with its bill wide open, turning its head from side to side. This gives a ventriloquial effect; it is almost impossible to place exactly where the song is coming from, and its intensity alters constantly. Singing birds are especially vocal around dusk and dawn.
I love watching and photographing crickets and grasshoppers, I find them to be real characters! I got attacked by a big one last year! Hopefully I'll manage to get a few more pictures of these over the summer to show off their characters.
Most of my macro photography so far has been with the aid of flash so I'm going to make a concerted effort to try to get more natural light macro shots like this.
Thanks for looking,
Gary
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.