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July 31st, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized 32 Comments »
June 2008 Update: I know you probably found this post by searching for the word Grasshopper. Feel free to save this grasshopper image and use it however you want. I don’t know the official name of the grasshopper, but I took the photo in St. Petersburg, Florida. I then removed the background in Photoshop. If you know the specific species name of this grasshopper, let me know.
This beautiful grasshopper was hanging out on our patio wall all last night. I was able to get about a foot away and take this picture. The grasshoppers in Florida are gigantic.
Then we had some fun with photoshop. Notice how Lucy tries to save Avery.
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This is what happens when a writer gets a design program!!!
I was researching pictures of grasshoppers for our Food Chain. This was a great picture for my 4th graders!
The number of hits this post gets each day amazes me. It is practically one of my top ten posts. If you’re a searcher and you land on this page, please tell me what you were searching for.
i’m doing a project on grasshoppers for Biology and we needed a picture so thats how i wound up this website. it’s cool that you took this picture yourself-it turned out nice, Thanks forgiving me a good pic to use on my poster..haha!
my 3 year old caught one of these yesterday. I was searching for information on what grass hoppers like to eat.
this picture was great conversation starter with my 3 year old.lol
good job
I love the temerity of children. I think these grasshoppers look bold and ready to fight (they don’t jump away when you get close). To reach down and pick one up — I need that courage again.
I’m trying to find a movie made in the 70s about an alien ship that’s dug up in an English subway, and has some strange mystical impact on scientists. The “aliens look like grasshoppers” — my search terms — and that’s how I landed here. Still haven’t found the movie, however. But you have a cute kid.
Ha Ha that’s cute. =)
I wish I knew what kind of grasshopper it was.
I did a search for “grasshopper” to show someone who is learning English what one was. Yours was the best illustration in my opinion.
Thanks!
I have to make my son into a grasshopper for a play and just searched grasshopper photo.
Great grasshopper, now if I can make it.
Nice photoshop you got there.
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I landed on your website looking for a grasshopper photo for my 2nd grade son to use for a model he needed to make for school.
The search that brought up this page was “grasshopper porn”.
It’s a fetish.
I’m a transplanted Floridian and I googled “locust” because even after twenty-four years here, I can’t believe what’s eating my plants is a plain ol’ “grasshopper.” “Locust” didn’t get me my bug, so I tried “grasshopper,” and there it is. Your picture is the only one that looks like the critter I’m looking for. The thing is creeping me out. I’m told only cutting it or mashing it will kill it. An old woman from Colombia insists you have to BEHEAD them. I know all god’s chillun got shoes, but gak: I wish bugs didn’t have the effect on me that they DO.
I googled for ‘grasshoppers’ images, and yours was the 4th one, and in my opinion the best example for the reason I was googling. I was looking for the location of leg joints on the thorax. I photo-ed an insect in my backyard and while I know it’s not a grasshopper I wanted to compare some things. But now I think I’ll investigate this ‘grasshopper porn’ thing. Hee-hee!
I was searching for the word “grasshopper” in order to draw a grasshopper head sticking out of a dark hood. “Grim Hopper”. Its for an art project entitled Insect Mythology.
I googled “grasshopper” and your image was the second hit. I had taken a photo of this same species and was trying to identify it. It’s funny because I blogged it too, and I also live in St. Pete! You can check out my post at http://ericvichich.blogspot.com/2008/07/grasshopper.html
See ya
Eric
I live over in Tampa and just found a BFG in our backyard. I wanted to see what kind of species it was. It looked just like yours. I googled big grasshopper florida and went to image search.
Well this is what I was looking for! I live in Florida and I see these suckers all the time. Actually there was one on my door last night and I was looking up what they looked like so I could email my family and show them. Personaly I think they are gross I hate bugs but I am awed by their size! I am afraid of them if that makes sense ewww!!!
I found your post by searching for grasshopper images. I took a picture of one the other night, but ours here in California are so small I had to use my macro lens plus a set of Kenko tubes just to get a good shot of its face. I did a search because I wanted to check out the various colors grasshoppers can be. Here’s mine if you’re interested. It was only about two inches long, which is typical for my house. Yours is great by the way and your Photoshopping is perfect. Love the look on the little girl’s face. lol[img]http://www.photozo.com/album/data/3340/IMG_1878-2_800px.jpg[/img]
Hey there! How big are they? Like 1 inch?
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@ Voos More like two and a half inches.
Hey there, folks. What you’re looking at is the Eastern Lubber, or Georgia Thumper. They’re huge, like 2.5 – 3″ long, and in numbers, they can decimate your garden. It’s also completely freaky when you’re walking along a field row and one jumps up in your face… I’d suggest not screaming like a girl in front of the old timers on the farm. They tend to remember stuff like that, and you’ll get a nickname that’s hard to shake.
I was raised in the northen section of the EverGlades, a place called The Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge Area, wbere I have seen so many of these large grasshoppers that I could only estimate how many. But I can tell you for sure I measured one at 4 1/4 inches and there were many close to or even sligtly bigger, with an average adult measuring about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches. I also from time to time worked as a fishing guide speacalizing Big Bass on Lake Okeechobee. Bass loved these big hoppers, when fishing was a little slow and/or your clients weren’t all that good fishing artifical bates/lures I’d put 6 to 9 inch shinners on their hooks or, if I had some handy these large hoppers. It was very rare not to land more then a few good sized (5 lbs and up) bass using this method. Be careful to hook them about an inch up from the back of the tail and under their wings, this does little dammage to them, and gives them the freedom to cause quit a comotion atracting preditor fish, infact I’ve even turned some lose at days end and they seem to be OK as they hop or fly on their marry way!
God Bless Ya’ll,
Wayne Steamboat Owen
(The Everglades Bluesman)
I really hate those big ugly grasshoppers. My despise goes all the way back to a childhood encounter with one that creeped me out and will always be remembered. I was trying to find out what kind of hopper they are, not that it really matters to me , because the only good ones are dead! They are munching on my plants and have a habit of jumping out and scaring me while i try to work in my yard. I have found that wasp spray will kill them. The plus of wasp spray is it shoots a long distance so you don’t need to be close to get your target! When I head into the yard, my trusty can of spray is by my side. I stocked up on the spray when I found a sale, I am serious about trying to RIP all the ones I come across. Anyway if anyone else needs to rid their yard of these gross pests, try the wasp spray!
Well, its 2009, and I was googling grasshoppers because we found one of these and I was wondering what the name of it was. Your pic came up and that is exactly what we have!!! We love insects so we are keeping it as a pet, for as long as we can. We think its beautiful! My son loves to play with her and let her climb the table legs, and such, as if she were King Kong! Queen Kong, I guess!! Still don’t know what she is yet. We’re in SC!
I think this grasshopper looks a bit like an alien (though not as much as praying mantises). Still, I’m happy to hear that your child can play with it as a pet. I imagined that it would spit and strike at me or something if I actually held it.
I in love with a grasshopper.
better fry than BEHEAD them. grasshoppers r kosher. said to taste like chicken and i loove anything chicken mm! good to know where u can find TIGER SIZE!!
well “grasshopper” all most make me mad they cut down my plants and I can’t control them I want to know what to kill them
thanks heaps for your generosity with the image! i was looking for an image for my blog
http://xenos-theology.blogspot.com/2010/02/grasshopper-theology-1.html
Cool post. I hadn’t heard of grasshopper theology before. Does that mean one gets to work in service of others rather than in waiting to be served? Unfortunately, that big lubber of a grasshopper was terribly slothful. He just sat on my wall staring at me for hours.
I needed an image of a grasshopper so that I could create a food web of a barn owl for my ecology class. Beautiful photo, no background, exactly what I needed. Thank you for sharing this picture with the world.