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Just another grasshopper - I've spotted quite a few in various stages / sizes this summer so this one isn't particularly special. Except it did have a buddy on the same salvia plant just the night before. Till later...
He was really singing his heart out, while facing the late evening sun, taken in Norfolk. This is an archive image not posted before.
As far as I know Grasshoppers seem to be abundant, and I will assume happy when it is hot and dry. I suppose today they will be hiding out trying to stay warm as heavy rain that began last evening continued all night and is expected to last until this evening. So I will be hiding out inside as well, but with a bigger smile than the Grasshoppers. Expected high to day is only to be 16C (61F) and is quite windy.
Hopefully some ponds will be at least partially rejuvenated and grasshopper populations will be slightly controlled.
As to the ID, I have no idea and it is not important to me. Although they can be severe pests as far as crops and plants go, I do think that they look very cool.
Should take two clicks to the full view.
These exoskeleton skin things just blow me away. I've found several around my yard this summer, one even on my front-door step. But I'm positive I saw the owner of this skin the evening before. It was bright green, just like the grasshopper I posted yesterday. The next morning I came to photograph them early, before the breezes started up. This was very close to where I'd seen the little green guy the night before. How do they ever get out of there and leave it so intact?? Believe it or not, I found video clips on the web. They ease slowly out of the top or backside, kinda where the wings are here. The only thing not so intact here is the abdomen all scrunched up. Still seems beyond comprehension to me. It would be crazy to actually see it real time. Very cool stuff.
It seem it likes to be mirrored..
a visitor on my terrace in Thailand.
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I wasn't sure about the difference between grasshoppers and katydids. Can someone with knowledge about this confirm that katydids have longer antannae than their bodies whereas grasshoppers have shorter antannae?
Also, some interesting info from the Australian Museum:
"Grasshoppers and locusts have a row of pegs like a comb on their back legs. They scrape these pegs against the hard edges of the front wings to make sounds. Crickets and katydids produce sounds by rubbing their wings together. In order to hear these sounds, orthopterans have a tympanum (ear) on each front leg, just below the knee."
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This summer our garden seems to be full of these sweethearts...
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I usually manage to hear one or two grasshopper warblers every year but I often struggle to see one. This year however, I've heard four and of those seen two including this incredibly obliging bird which climbed up into this blackthorn bush right next to me as I was discussing it with another birder
Grasshopper
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It's early morning and this fellow is drying off his body facing the sun as the evening dew had covered his body.This yoga position is called the early morning Grasshopper chill !
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
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It passed my mind to save this one for Halloween but figured I'd forget, so here it is. Grasshopper exoskeleton. It was dangling on a thread of spider web, so I moved it onto the plant it was hanging from. I find this utterly amazing.
Grasshopper Florida.
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Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grasshoppers are typically ground-dwelling insects with powerful hind legs which allow them to escape from threats by leaping vigorously. Their front leg is shorter and used for grasping food. As hemimetabolous insects, they do not undergo complete metamorphosis; they hatch from an egg into a nymph or "hopper" which undergoes five moults, becoming more similar to the adult insect at each developmental stage.
Los Angeles. California.
Grasshopper Warbler - Locustella naevia)
The common grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) is a species of Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus Locustella. It breeds across much of temperate Europe and western Asia. It is migratory, wintering in north and west Africa.
This small passerine bird is found in short dense vegetation, often close to water. It is a medium-sized warbler about 13 cm (5 in) long. The adult has a streaked brown back and whitish grey underparts which are unstreaked except on the undertail coverts. The sexes are identical, as with most warblers, but young birds are yellower below. Like most warblers, it is insectivorous. Four to seven eggs are laid in a nest on or near the ground in thick vegetation or in a tussock of grass.
This is a species which skulks in the undergrowth, creeping through bushes and low foliage, and which is very difficult to see except sometimes when singing from a prominent position. The song, which gives this species its name, is a monotonous mechanical insect-like reeling, often given at dawn or dusk.
There's been a recent remake of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu". Sorry, you won't get me to watch it, because nothing can be better that the original series. What a creative twist on the Western genre it was. David Carradine was superb as Caine, the Shaolin monk who had fled China after the death of his spiritual master.
As a young novice monk he was "Grasshopper", but by the time he arrived in America Caine had become a fully realised man. Confronted with the violence and anarchy of the Wild West, Caine brings serenity and civilised humanity wherever he goes.
"Kung Fu: The Journey From Grasshopper to Caine"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J37QUZjOjF8
"The Kung Fu Shaolin"
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.
Limnos Island, Greece
Autotomy is a process in grasshoppers whereby one or both hindlimbs can be shed to escape a predator or can be abandoned if damaged. It occurs between the trochanter and the femur (second and third leg segments) and once lost, the legs never regenerate. J Neurobiol. 1991 Jul;22(5):536-46.