Grasshopper Portrait. Blue Cypress Lake
by Chris Kusik
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Grasshopper Portrait. Blue Cypress Lake
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Chris Kusik
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Photograph - 35mm
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A small aperture setting on the lens allowed the background to fall to black. This was taken in broad daylight on a dock at Blue Cypress Lake. This is a Southeastern Lubber. They are rather large, impressive grasshoppers measuring about 3.0 inches. Southeastern lubbers are flightless, although not wingless. They move from place to place primarily by walking, but are capable of jumping short distances. Adults of this species are yellow, spotted black, with red coloration under their wings. Southeastern lubbers are most often found in open pinewoods, weedy fields and the vegetation along roadsides. Their preferred diet includes the foliage of citrus, vegetables and ornamental plants. Lubbers have at their disposal a variety of relatively unpalatable means of defending themselves against threats from other animals. The bright coloration and patterning on a lubber's shell is a warning pattern to predators that they are unpalatable to downright poisonous. Lubbers ingest and assimilate substances in the plants they consume that, although harmless to humans and the lubbers themselves, are toxic to many predators. These chemicals may kill smaller creatures such as birds or leave larger animals quite ill after ingesting a lubber.
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July 25th, 2012
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