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  1. #Crickets and #grasshoppers communicate via #bioacoustics for mate recognition. In turn this can be used for #species #identification e.g. via passive audio monitoring and #machinelearning. Do you have some #mustreads on this topic?

  2. Gemeine Eichenschrecke 🦗
    lat. Meconema thalassinum
    Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
    📍#Zofingen #Schweiz

    Die sass plötzlich auf dem Balkontisch, sprang wohl von einer Balkonpflanze her. Ich gab ihr #Wasser, sie schaffte es aber leider nicht.

    #Eichenschrecke #Meconema #Schrecken #Tiere #Insekten #Fotografie #Fauna #Grillen #Hitze #Hitzewelle #OakGrasshopper #Grasshoppers #Animals #Insects #Photography #Fauna #Crickets #Heat #HeatWave #Switzerland #shotoniphone

  3. Whatay fascinating article on the sudden disappearance of the Rocky Mountain Locust in the USA:

    “The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess”, Thomas Stafford (explosion-scratch.github.io/lo).

    Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

    #Locusts #USA #Grasshoppers #Insects #Extinction

  4. And, in breaking news, here's the first migratory locust ever seen in Lincoln, NZ, seen today by William Harland at 2:30 pm.

    This is a widespread cosmopolitan species considered native to NZ, and with the Māori name Kapakapa. In the right conditions elsewhere in the world it reaches pest-level densities.

    inaturalist.nz/observations/36

    #insects #orthoptera #iNaturalistNZ #locust #grasshoppers

  5. 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

  6. “A grasshopper”. (1914) by David Fairchild, Marian Fairchild, from Book of Monsters.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/d7d3

    #insects #macrophotography #grasshoppers #art #publicdomain

  7. Afternoon Snack

    Caught this fella in my lens the other day and thought I’d share the image.

    #grasshoppers #Nature #photography

  8. Differential grasshopper giving out free hugs along Clear Creek Trail yesterday.

    Headed down to the Iowa River this morning to see if I can catch a sunrise. Wish me luck 🤞👍.

    #PhotoHour #nature #NaturePhotography #macro #MacroPhotography #insects #grasshoppers #Photography #AltText

  9. Don't know who named this grasshopper but what an splendid name!

    Mediterranean Splendid Grasshopper, Heteraclis litoralis
    inaturalist.org/observations/3

    #iNaturalist #Orthoptera #grasshoppers #entomology

  10. Today I learned that #Grasshoppers #Molt .

    This #Bug took it's clothes off on me, what do I do? :KEKW:

  11. 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

    #linocut #printmaking #grasshoppers #insect #sciart #washi #mastoArt