Foto Friday: Beauty in a "Bug"?

Florida is not only known for beaches and sunshine but also for some really big bugs! Well, this one is actually a grasshopper and home grown for that matter as it's been feasting on the plants in my very own yard all its life. I just figure, I deserved I a great photo for this hospitality.

This guy actually started out with hundreds of its brothers as tiny little specks of something clinging to some Muhly grass back in the Spring. You might guess, I can't kill nothing and it didn't seem to hurt the grass, so I kept watching as these things started growing into small grasshoppers. As they did so, their numbers decreased considerably. Still, at one point, some of my lilies looked a bit sad because they were literally eaten up by these critters.

By time, this one reached about three inches, there were only a handful of them left around so I thought I'd better get hopping myself with the camera! And of course, I had to look him up and found an quite interesting article and discovered its name "Eastern Lubber Grasshopper". I just think it's quite beautiful.

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