Albert CardonaVisual acuity test: find the grasshopper.
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Hint: it’s big. Spans about half the width of the image!
Stephen Royle
Sally Lowell@steveroyle @albertcardona Me neither, but I see a pattern of repeating dots on the 'grass' to the right of Steve's yellow circle -on two brown things that might be back legs and a a green thing that might be the back of the body. Even then I can't see the whole thing. Amazing!
@CellySally @steveroyle You got it: to the right of Steve’s circle. Acrida ungarica are masters of camouflage. I assure you the whole grasshoper is in full view. The abdomen to the right has evenly spaced tracheal spiracles – the dots you see. The hind legs are spiky and angled upwards like in all grasshoppers. The head is hard: slender, with thin eyes barely bulging from it, and a snout extending well beyond the eyes.
If it helps, the eyes seem to have a black pupil (although that's a visual artifact, it's not a real pupil.)
Pete Carlton@albertcardona @CellySally @steveroyle
We have this kind of grasshopper in Japan, there are a few thousand in my yard right now… :)
Mary Fesenko@CellySally @pmcarlton @albertcardona @steveroyle Wow 🤩 That is an amazing creature! I initially thought it was the thing Steve circled too, clearly underestimated the size because in my mind grasshoppers are “small”