Fun sighting at the playground today! These purple grasshoppers have vermilion wings! I could have kicked myself for not having my camera. You’ll have to settle for this one:
Follow it up with homemade ice cream from the lecheria and you have yourself one heck of an outing.
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Purple grasshoppers, poison dart frogs, crabs, and toads, oh my! The jungles are alive with the sound of music! Hope you don’t mind my mixed metaphors–or mixed musicals, at any rate!
does anyone know what species this grasshopper is?
I think it’s Taeniopoda reticulata, but I found your picture because I was searching for other resources that identified this insect…
It’s definitely genus Taeniopoda, a type of lubber grasshopper.
It is also a female; I studied my hoppers on an island off the coast of Panama; they’re quit common in that general area of the world.
Thanks for the picture. I took a similar picture which is available if anyone wants it. I took it with my Canon digital camera up close of the grasshopper perched on a sugar cane leaf in Turrialba, Costa Rica. All the best Carl.