I continue to organize old pictures from Photobucket, and this is a poorly focused picture of my best friends on my tropical fluted point site.
These guys hatch a couple of weeks after the seasonal rains start and when the timing is just right, they eat all brown leaves on the ground. That lets a bit of erosion happen, and also lets other plant seeds sprout.
They are big, slow and apparently taste really bad because nothing eats them. (In the desert there is always something that will eat anything.)
I found a better picture of one not in hand, as well as a couple of pictures of what you see at a fluted point workshop. The one in hand is a "bull" or really robust grasshopper. This guy was a bit more delicate, the folds in his neck aren't as big.
These guys hatch a couple of weeks after the seasonal rains start and when the timing is just right, they eat all brown leaves on the ground. That lets a bit of erosion happen, and also lets other plant seeds sprout.
They are big, slow and apparently taste really bad because nothing eats them. (In the desert there is always something that will eat anything.)
I found a better picture of one not in hand, as well as a couple of pictures of what you see at a fluted point workshop. The one in hand is a "bull" or really robust grasshopper. This guy was a bit more delicate, the folds in his neck aren't as big.
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