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Young green Grasshopper


Young green Grasshopper
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Copyright: Jesus Linares (jlinaresp) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1303 W: 56 N: 4023] (17292)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2011-07-02
Categories: Insects
Camera: Olympus SP565 UZ
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/100 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2011-07-03 15:12
Viewed: 3610
Points: 28
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Young green Grasshopper

Hello friends!

Well, these little green guys, are focusing on eating my plants during these last weeks! ... I hope not to become a garden pest! ... At least I could take a picture of the teenager-eating of plants and flowers! :)

Regards,

Jesús


Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera

Some facts about this creatures:
Grasshoppers have a springy mechanism in their knees. It is between the second and third joints for jumping. Grasshoppers exert force on their back legs so they can be strong and can often break one of their legs while jumping. Grasshoppers are herbivorous.

Grasshoppers have white blood. They get oxygen from holes in their body called spiracles. They belong to two main families the short horned including locust and the long horned including Katydids and crickets. They have a three part body-head, thorax and abdomen. They have six jointed legs, two pairs of wings and two antennae. Grasshoppers have five eyes and are covered in an exoskeleton. There are 18,000 types of grasshoppers in the world. Grasshoppers have no ears and they hear with an organ called an tympanum. They go through three stages of metamorphosis. Females lay several dozen eggs and cover them in a paste like fluid to protect them through winter.

The eggs start to hatch in the warmer weather and they turn into nymphs which take 40-60 days to develop into adults. Males make noise by rubbing their back legs together called stridulation. Some grasshoppers can leap over 3m. They eat plants and predators that include birds, beetles, rodents, reptiles and spiders. Grasshopper’s legs can walk on their own even when detached from the insect’s body! Grasshoppers are considered to be locusts and they are also edible! They are eaten as food in many parts of the world. They can be ground, dried, roasted, boiled and dipped in honey. They can be jellied and chocolate covered which is quite a delicacy. In 1874 a Church in Kansas was built during a grasshopper plague so thousands of grasshoppers got mixed into the mortar of the buildings foundation!

In 1848 in Salt Lake City there is a monument to sea gulls that devoured a plague of grasshoppers that had threatened Mormon settler’s crops. Grasshoppers are the largest amount of biomass of plant feeders on Konza Prairie except for bison. Grasshoppers have a large impact on the prairie ecosystem. The frightened lubber grasshopper oozes a horrible smelling froth from its mouth. Did you know that a pound of grasshoppers is more nutritious then a pound of beef! The world’s largest grasshoppers are 10 inches long. Flies will lay their eggs near or in a grasshopper eggs and eat them when they hatch.

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Shoted in RAW format, 1/100s, f/5.0, ISO 100
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kkkkkkkk Jesús!!! Yo tengo una foto con muchos de esos simpáticos saltamontes.Ellos sont muy graciosos! Tu foto está muy linda como siempre con unos colores super agradabiles y una definición invidiable.
Veo que estás usando ahora el formato RAW ( que todavia es un mistério para mi) ...Pero...yo estoy seguiendo buscando conocer más de la fotografia.
Muchas gracias por compartir tu charmossisimo saltamontes.
Un abrazo y que tengas una excelente semana!
aNa
PS: hoy hace poco, Brazil x Venezuela...kkkkkkkk Te gustó el resultado? 0xO \O/

This juvenile grasshopper looks good on that contrasting yellow petals. Love the green details and the popping compound eyes.
Well done and kind regards, Jesus.

Ciao Jesus,
una macro dai bellissimi colori con un piacevole contrasto tra il verde della cavalletta e l'arancio del fiore, ottima nitidezza, eccellente il punto di vista per una composizione armoniosa
Grazie e complimenti
Buona settimana
Ciao Maurizio

Hello Jesus,
Nice guy of your garden. He chose a flower with great color.
Regards
Lucja

Ciao Jesus,gran bel grillo su un fantastico fiore, bei colori brillanti e ottima nitidezza, bravo, ciao Silvio

good color combination between flower color and grass hopper. good sharpness and clarity. nice angle. congrats.

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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3097 W: 109 N: 12399] (52850)
  • [2011-07-04 1:30]

Hello Jesus,
A wonderful combination of the flower and the grasshopper. Well composed, good details and lovely colors. Well done & TFS.Best regards Siggi

Hello Jesus,
Perfect macro and nice detalis.
Very good detalis.
Have a good day.

Ciao Jesus. Ottima cattura con il verde del grillo a contrastare col giallo del posatoio. Ottimo dettaglio e bellissima composizione.

Roberto

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  • PeterZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5137 W: 166 N: 13121] (49139)
  • [2011-07-04 5:32]

Hello Jesus,
Exceptional photo in splendid colours and taken from a perfect POV. Great sharpness, details and composition. Good DOF.
Regards,
Peter

A very interesting combination of the green of the grasshoper and the intense orange. Fine details. regards yiannis

Impressive colours and impressive sharpness Jesus!! Another excellent photo!
Regards,
Christodoulos

hello Jesus
very nice composition with great details and super colours
thanks greeting lou

sorry after 6 times i have no more smile,s

Hello Jesus,
Beautiful macro capture taken with splendid colours and great details. Well done!
Regards,
Mircea

Hello Jesús

The color tones and their contrast are beautiful,
fine POV, DOF and framing, excellent focus
sharpness and details of the subject, TFS

Asbed

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