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Hoping to get a better pic of a grasshopper yet this month. Just in case another opportunity doesn't present itself, though, this will do for today's pic of the day . . .
8.7.2012
Grasshopper restaurant.
They're just selling icecreams, coffee and some spaghetties, not grasshoppers. haha!
made by old trains.
25.June.2010 @Jeongsun
I took a few shots at this grasshopper when I found him sitting on my back porch. Later I found him on the table on the back porch. It was difficult to get a head on shot without him wanting to turn away.
The differential grasshopper is a species of grasshopper belonging to the genus Melanoplus. It is found throughout northern Mexico, the central United States and southern Ontario, Canada. It is considered a pest over most of its range.
Grasshopper Sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum (Gmelin, 1789). Grassdale Road near Remington, Virginia, USA. Photo by David L. Govoni ©2013
Cornell: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Grasshopper_Sparrow/id
EOL: eol.org/pages/1052644/overview
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_Sparrow
my intention of going to my garden that day was just to take close-up, abstract shots of the leaves of this plant, but had a pleasant surprise when i saw him. he must've been pretty terrified of the shutter going off centimeters away; the lens was almost touching. went on to take 107 shots of this little guy in action (he's missing a leg), climbing over and under leaves, until a gust of wind blew him off. well, it was both a good and bad thing because if that hadn't happened i would've continued for hours.
...in response to comments...
yep, he was climbing the other leaf, and he made it! the foreground leaf was intentional, i wanted to give this photo a sense of depth, like the others said.
a baby grasshopper hopping over the grass to eat our organic hop plants at Half Hill Farm. The birds are doing a great job keeping them in check for now, so we're sparing them the diatomaceous earth cannon treatment which would also kill our aphid-eating ladybugs.
Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
Superclass Hexapoda - Hexapods
Class Insecta - Insects
Subclass Pterygota - Winged Insects
Order Orthoptera - Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets
Suborder Caelifera - Short-horned Orthoptera
Family Acrididae - Short-horned Grasshoppers
Subfamily Melanoplinae - Spur-throated Grasshoppers
Genus Melanoplus
Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)
June | Central Ohio, Glacier Ridge Metro Park |
EOS 7D | EF 500mm f4 L IS + 1.4x | 580EX II + better beamer
Grasshopper Sparrow, Crooked River State Park, Camden County, GA. April 25, 2014; Photo by Jason Knoll. Checklist at: ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18080002
As the grasshopper grows it sheds its hard outer layer (exoskeleton) because its solid exoskeleton cannot grow larger. This process is called molting. Most grasshoppers molt about 5 times.
Before the molting process beings the grasshopper becomes less active and does not eat. When a nymph is ready to molt, it climbs onto a leaf or a branch or even hangs upside down. Slowly, the nymph slides out of its old exoskeleton. Underneath, the nymph has a new, soft exoskeleton. The nymph puffs up with air. This makes its body bigger while the new exoskeleton hardens. Now the nymph has room to grow until the next molt.
The old Blaen Bran Farm track was alive with common field grasshoppers (Chorthippus brunneus) this afternoon.
This grasshopper was a cooperative subject to dust off the macro lens with.
Shot using Canon macro flash MT-24EX. Back lit by the late afternoon summer sun.
Taking on the banks of the Barrington River near Gloucester, NSW, Australia.