Sunday, December 26, 2021

December 26, 2021

I am an Atlantic Grasshopper
You can tell by the length of my antenae
They are twice the length of my pronotum - 
A part of my body not known to many. 

(Click the link below to see where the pronotum is located. In genera, it's the little shield like thing over the first part of the thorax, just after his head.)

Location: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, Fellsmere

Sources: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/ghopper/spur3.pdf
https://animalcorner.org/grasshopper-body-anatomy/

Photo and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson





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