Orange-winged Grasshopper, Pardalophora phoenicoptera
This grasshopper is beautiful in shades of green and gray, but it's hiding some colorful secrets.
Bright orange underwings....
and bright blue inner thighs.
Many thanks to Mr. Swamp for holding the hopper and making it reveal its secrets! He has a gentle touch and the critter was released unharmed.
5 comments:
Those under-colours are surprsing.
Awesome.
We should all be so lucky as to have a skilled and willing assistant!
I think I had some alloy wheels on a bike the color of that leg at one point.
Those look like Florida Gator colors to me.
very nice work indeed--although I suspect those secrets are a design for his mate's eyes alone?
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