Painted grasshopper

Painted grasshopper

The half-grown immature form is greenish-yellow with fine black markings and small crimson spots. The mature grasshopper has canary yellow and turquoise stripes on its body, green tegmina with yellow spots, and pale red hind wings.

It changes its outward appearance by molting.

Habits Edit

The grasshopper feeds on the poisonous plant Calotropis gigantea.

Upon slight pinching of the head or abdomen, the half-grown immature form ejects liquid in a sharp and sudden jet, with a range of two inches or more, from a dorsal opening between the first and second abdominal segments. The discharge is directed towards the pinched area and may be repeated several times. The liquid is pale and milky, slightly viscous and bad-tasting,containing cardiac glycosides that the insect obtains from the plant it feeds upon.

In the adult, the discharge occurs under the tegmina and collects as viscous bubbly heap along the sides of the body.

It is known based on the main food plant as Aak grasshopper or locally in few tribal areas called titighodo.

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Hi @PKPICTUREWORLD

Welcome to Connect :handshake:

Nice picture of the grasshopper, did you capture it?

What type of camera and camera settings did you use to capture the colors so nicely?

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Ya sure sir but I don’t know that much about the grasshopper that’s why i copy this bio next time I remember that things. but this is original picture shoot by me on mobile device name OPPO A1K.

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Hi @PKPICTUREWORLD

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Remove the copied text from your article and simply tell what camera you used and what kind of settings you used to click this beautiful picture.

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Looking forward to more such photos from you…

Ok sir thanks for providing me this information :blush:

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