There were just so many of
them congregated in one spot. I
estimate about 20 of them. You can see
that they have been munching on the leaves.
I guess that these are
juveniles since they haven't developed their wings yet. Just look at the fiery red lines.
They grow up to be quite
large. On the internet they said that
they grow to be 3 inches long but I swear that I have seen at least 4 inches
long. Maybe they just seemed that big
because of the small 1 inch green caterpillars that I saw as a child while
growing up in New York . This picture of a large grasshopper is from
the internet and is definitely not my finger, no way.
Some fanciful diversions on
large grasshoppers.
Yeah, this what goes through
my mind when I see these huge grasshoppers. I know, an overactive imagination.
They remind me of the old
sci-fi flick The Beginning of the End.
A great movie if you like the old classics in sci-fi movies. I do, especially from the 50's.
Of course the giant
grasshoppers were the result of radiation. Aren't most of the monsters created by radiation and atomic testing? It seems that way.
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