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Pygmy Grasshopper
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

Pygmy Grasshopper
Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
June 21, 2007
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Contributed by tom murray on 26 June, 2007 - 8:24am

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Great image! This one has an upturned tip of the pronotal shield, no doubt an artifact of a bad molt to adulthood...but look at the coloration! This might be a bird-dropping mimic. I don't know that anyone has documented that possibility in tetrigids. Nice work.
… Eric R. Eaton, 26 June, 2007 - 1:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Eric
It does look rather unpalatable.
… tom murray, 26 June, 2007 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

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