The Rainbow Grasshopper (I thought they only came in mint green/brown)

[packman]

Native to northern Mexico, the United States and Canada.

[SergeStorms]

1. I used to see those.

Then I stopped taking acid, peyote, psilocybin and things like that.

[Hekate]

2. I thought that's what those little painted figures were all about -- hallucinations from peyote

I never imagined they existed in the light of common day!

[SergeStorms]

3. Pretty scary, huh?

Who knew?

[paleotn]

7. Ha!

[tblue37]

4. Gorgeous!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. I remember seeing rainbow grasshoppers

When I was growing up.
Dont see them much anymore,just like the bees working clover. I saw 1 bee all summer.
It was a bumble bee.

[MLAA]

6. He looks like a Talavaras grasshopper!

[happybird]

9. Beautiful!

[Delphinus]

8. Oh my ...

how cool!

[Cozmo]

10. How beautiful!

[secondwind]

11. What a beauty!

[IronLionZion]

12. Dactylotum bicolor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylotum_bicolor

[eppur_se_muova]

17. "Bicolor" ?? Someone's missing some cones. nt

[IronLionZion]

18. Trust the science

[Joinfortmill]

13. Amazing. You don't see much blue in nature.

[Demovictory9]

14. Pretty and terrifying

[Snackshack]

15. Pretty

Aliens do exist. You can’t tell me that’s not an alien life form 😉

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. Are those available on Amazon in a choice of colors and sizes?

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Mother Nature has an evolutionary reason for everything!

From Wikipedia:

The insect's coloration was shown to be aposematic in an experiment of predation by little striped whiptail lizards. These brightly-colored grasshoppers were less attractive to the lizards as food than cryptically-colored Trimerotropis sp of similar size, even though the lizards were unfamiliar with the rainbow grasshopper, which was not present in their natural habitat. The lizards may previously have encountered other prey with warning colors such as stink bugs, seed bugs, or velvet ants. The rainbow grasshopper is also distasteful to birds.

Beautiful critter, Packman and thanks for posting.....

[Skittles]

19. THAT GRASSHOPPER THINKS HE IS ALL THAT

ARROGANT FUCKER