Don't Touch
by AnnaJo Vahle
Title
Don't Touch
Artist
AnnaJo Vahle
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Saw this critter on the window of a store front. It seemed a bit out of place. I found the following information about it online.
The large, brightly colored Eastern lubber grasshopper is hard to miss. Its bright orange, yellow and red colors are a warning to predators that it contains toxins that will make it sick. But the colors are a spectacular sight for people just watching the slow moving, large grasshopper displaying its hues.
It is much better to watch than touch this insect. If you pick up this grasshopper it will make a loud hissing noise and secrete an irritating, foul-smelling foamy spray.
The four-inch long grasshopper cannot fly. Instead it moves in short clumsy hops. It can also walk or crawl.
The Eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea guttata) eats broadleaf plants and will feast in gardens.
They live throughout Florida and from North Carolina to Tennessee, in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Arizona. These insects mostly reside in open pinewoods, weedy vegetation and weedy fields.
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August 19th, 2021
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Comments (13)
Greta Foose
Love the details in both the image and in your explanation about this interesting insect.
Marsha Reeves
Beautiful photograph--I love Mr. Hopper. The grasshoppers in Texas spit what we called "tobacco juice" when I was a child if you catch them. Not very irritating but kinda disgusting :) l/f
Reynold Jay
Thank you for warning me about picking up one of these little fellas! Cute and informative too ! FAVORITE.
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