Egyptian Bird Grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptium)

Egyptian Bird Grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptium)

This is a small little handprinted linocut print of a red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), one of the most common grasshoppers in North America, these are the most commonly seen grasshoppers in the northern US and southern Canada. Reddish-brown on their backs, yellow-green below, they are named for their orangy-red legs. In high-density, 1/2

Pavonia rock rose pollen grains are huge! Here's a photo I took this week of a young bird grasshopper hanging out, just grubby with massive pollen grains. #Insects #Schistocerca #Bloomscrolling #Grasshoppers #Pink

Common Cylindric Grasshopper (Tropidopola cylindrica)

Egyptian Bird Grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptium)

A Monkey Grasshopper (genus Erianthus) spotted at Kranji Marshes, Singapore, on 31 Oct 2024. An unusual looking grasshopper with an upright head.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/250258959 ].

Declining body size is a widely anticipated response to #anthropogenic #ClimateChange, but how general is it? @lbuckley &co use a >50-year study of montane #grasshoppers to show that size shifts depend on both elevation & species’ seasonal timing #plosbiology https://plos.io/3CEBrF6

#Climatechange is depleting #plant #nutrition, threatening #herbivores from #grasshoppers to giant #pandas

Rising #CO2 levels are driving faster plant growth but reducing #nutrient density, with alarming impacts across #ecosystems.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/12/30/climate-change-is-depleting-plant-nutrition-threatening-herbivores-from-grasshoppers-to-giant-pandas/

Eine gewöhnliche Gebirgsschrecke ... es lohnt sich, ältere Ordner noch mal zu durchstöbern. Das Bild ist von einer Wanderung auf den Tiroler Kogel in 2020

A common mountain grasshopper... it's worth browsing through older folders again. The picture is from a hike on the Tiroler Kogel in 2020

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2024/10/field.html#more

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2024/08/26/rachael-heyhoe-flint-trophy-action-2/
#cricket #RHFT #SVvBLZ #photography #birds #insects #butterflies #caterpillars #damselflies #dragonflies #grasshoppers
A look at the action so far in the RHFT game between Vipers and Blaze and a photo gallery.

Roesel’s Bush Cricket.
Common but beautiful
Seen on 15-mile walk today

Afternoon visitor to the garden today was happy posing for photographs.

Apparently, my water shoes have magical insect attracting skills.

Doctor Shoelittle?

Pallid-winged grasshopper, Trimetropis pallidipennis. In the intertidal zone (low tide, of course) at Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2024/08/desert-dweller.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Insects #Grasshoppers #Chapulines

Monarch butterfly and friends

The largest grasshopper in the U.S., the eastern lubber, known locally as the Devil’s horse