Larry Hopsalot (grasshopper)

(As named on FaceCrack by my friend Shannon.)

It's a face that more then a mother will love.

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TINY grasshopper (grey, tan, camo colored)

Soooo tiny, like the size of my pinky finger nail. anddd, it looks like little tiny wings on its back, but it's just two tan dots that are part of the pattern.
I like to think of them as evolving dragon wings.

Loooooook at his amazing old man, stone henge, pouty, big nosed face!!!! it's like something you see in a nursing home.
A face i love!
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Green, Black and White Striped Grasshopper

Aw, so pretty. I heart nature.

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Tiny Translucent Green Grasshopper (with brown stripe)

Check out how long this grasshopper's antenna are!? You know it was picking up the classic rock station all the way in Tennessee. ;) This insect was not too shy mainly because it had found a sunny spot on a log after a night of frost and wasn't giving it up jus' cause I was hovering around in the same sun. I have never seen a hopper like this before, it's green color is very bright and almost translucent in direct light, then it has this awesome opaque brown stripe down it's back with matching eyes!
It's feelers are a good 3-4 times the size of it's body and it was definitely using them readily- swinging them all around while keeping the rest of it's body perfectly still.
Can anyone tell me what the difference between a grasshopper and a cricket is?
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Super Duper Tiny Grasshopper

This grasshopper is smaller then my pinky nail. After the 40 degree night it was out on the deck sunning itself in the morning. I didn't even think my camera could really focus on it cause it is soooooo micro, but here it is....
When it finally got weirded out by all my interest, it launched into the air & then hid in a crack between two pieces of wood.
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Green Grasshoppers Riding Piggyback

Sexy.

(Learn more about them here.)

UPDATE:::
More grasshopper love! Must be the season...

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Brown Speckled Grasshopper

That's the kinda face that makes me smile. :) This grasshopper was just riding the wave of turnip green, occasionally taking a bite or two, and sometimes glancing at me like I was a big huge weirdo who may become annoying. And I did, after a while I started checking out all angles and mischievously tried to get him to spread his beautiful wings & fly by putting my hand all up in his face. When he finally did fly it startled me so much I jumped back...so sorry, no pic of his wings.
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Leafy Grasshopper

These are the kind of grasshoppers that have such awesome camo (looking exactly like a leaf and all) that I rarely get the chance to see one. This one was very confident in his ability to blend in and was convinced for quite a while that there was no possible way I had spotted him - allowing me to really get close up and observe. He stayed perfectly still and when he was ready to eat again only the tiniest parts of his mouth moved, I mean tiny!

He was eating on my organic mustard greens (growing in my garden) which are now going to seed - so I don't really mind if he helps himself a little, it will probably only make the plant more anxious and hardy in making it's seeds. In the sunlight you could see almost straight through his body, making it totally look like a leaf lit up by daylight... biomimicry rocks!

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