David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
_______________________________________________Grasshoppers
and Crickets 47 – Red-winged Grasshoppers
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda
germanica
RED-WINGED GRASSHOPPER Oedipoda germanica
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The
ability of cryptically coloured grasshoppers and crickets to blend in with
their habitats is quite amazing, and the Red-winged Grasshopper Oedipoda
germanica, an
inhabitant of dry, rocky terrain in continental Europe, is a species that
relies on not being spotted by predators, remaining motionless unless
threatened, whereupon the red flash colouration of the hindwings will be used
as a confusion tactic as the grasshopper takes off. They will usually land not
too far away, rendering themselves invisible once they have landed on a
background of a similar colour to themselves. This species is variable in
appearance, as will be evident from these photographs. There are several
similar species. Some of these have blue hindwings, and others red. The above
photographs were obtained in France and Italy.
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