And well, we end this Insect Week with tenderness 😄😊, a quiet conversation with little ones with the dream of reaching high in their lives and a warrior listening 😊.
Thank you very much everyone and until the next Insect Week
Oh this is an absolutely beautiful creature!! thank you so so much for showing me them!! this is such a rare occurrence too! This is caused by Erythrism (excess in red pigments in the exoskeleton) and some people say theres only a roughly 1% chance of seeing a grasshopper with erythrism!
Have you ever seen a pink grasshopper? Though the meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) is typically distinguished by its green and brown coloration, a genetic mutation called erythrism leaves some individuals looking pretty in pink! Erythrism is the overproduction of red pigment. While these rare insects are beautiful to look at, pink grasshoppers are hindered by their vivid coloring because it makes hiding from predators much more difficult.
Photo: Back from the Brink, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr (Meadow grasshopper nymph pictured)
BUGS i saw at the CORN MAZE in south central WISCONSIN
in order: some type of North American Spur-throated Grasshopper (genus Melanoplus), Coleomegilla maculata (commonly known as the pink spotted lady beetle), some type of banded-wing fly (genus Chaetopsis), and Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (Western corn rootworm).
Someone accidentally found a pink grasshopper while mowing their lawn. Pink grasshoppers are usually native to Europe and Asia so to see one in the States is an extremely rare chance of only 1%