Mastodawn

A tiny creature in its golden world.
#MacroPhotography #Nature #Insects #Grasshoppers #Spring #Wildlife

Tragopogon porrifolius, again. This one has a tiny visitor.

#photography #nature #plants #flowers #wildlife #insects #grasshoppers #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT2 #Fujinon #XF150to600mm #XF150to600
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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Bruce MacDonald Apr 13

I like the way television makes early prairie life look so appealing. I want to believe!

Who wouldn't like to set out in a Conestoga wagon from Wisconsin to Minnesota, while avoiding dysentery?

But “What do you do when grasshoppers eat the clothes off your back?”

Stop by the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul to take a look at a sod hut.
https://www.mnhs.org/historycenter/activities/museum/then-now-wow

#Minnesota #PrairieEnthusiasm #grasshoppers

Eric Bono Mar 16

Making the beast with one back and one front, possibly necrophiliac

#california #wildlife #mountains #grasshoppers #camoflage

Myself Jan 24

Nowadays I rarely hear the grasshoppers, as a child I heard them a lot, but now it is kind of extremely rare to hear them. I don't specifically know why, whether it's because there are too few suitable green areas in my area or something else entirely.

#Syngende_markgræshoppe #Chorthippus_biguttulus #Bow_winged_grasshopper #Grasshoppers

Global Museum Jan 22

Have you ever seen a pink grasshopper? A genetic mutation called erythrism (the overproduction of red pigment) leaves some individuals looking pretty in pink! Though these rare insects are beautiful, their vivid coloring makes hiding from predators much more difficult.

American Museum of Natural History

@AMNH #globalmuseum #insects #grasshoppers