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Grasshoppers that Look Like Aliens
July 31st, 2007 | Posted in Life |
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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August 28th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
This is what happens when a writer gets a design program!!!
April 12th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Ha Ha that’s cute. =)
I wish I knew what kind of grasshopper it was.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am
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!
May 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
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.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:19 am
Nice photoshop you got there.
emps last blog post..Modern Science
May 26th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:53 am
The search that brought up this page was “grasshopper porn”.
It’s a fetish.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
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.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:22 am
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!
June 16th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
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.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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!!!
August 5th, 2008 at 9:20 am
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]