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Hiding Grasshopper
Contest Number: 170 Contest Theme: Insects Lens: D FA MACRO 100mmF2.8 WR Camera: K-01 Shutter Speed: 1/160s Aperture: F5.6 
Posted By: SGOMMO7, 10-31-2020, 02:27 AM

Many grasshoppers don’t come off as the most intelligent in the insect kingdom, however this particular species has an odd behavior that made them particularly difficult to photograph; you see these grasshoppers will adjust themselves so that they are obscured from your vision. There will be several of this grasshoppers and as you approach you will notice that they all went to the far side of the stems so that you can only see their feet as they hold themselves directly opposite of you, or they purposely hide behind a leaf, so you walk around to the other side and you watch them all hide from you again. You get to close they fly/hop away. This was frustrating as they are a very vibrant insect, that I wanted to get a good shot of.

To get this shot I had to slowly get as close as I could trying to not scare them all off, then hold still and wait for one to show itself/ hop towards you, then with some patience and very slow movements, I was eventually able to get this shot.

Haven’t researched enough to get the species name, but I have seen them several times and they are just so deliberant with their hiding behavior, that they seem like a totally different animal to all the other grasshopper species I’ve seen in CO.

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