A London family is holding on to a rare pink grasshopper they found in front of their northeast end home. Insect experts say the bug's rarit
The hot pink grasshopper is an oddity, but experts say that's less a result of its genes and more about its attractiveness to predators. "These pink grasshoppers are rare, but they're not exceedingly rare," said Andrew Young, an assistant professor and entomologist at the University of Guelph. "It's rare in nature because they're so obvious to predators that they tend to get picked off really quickly." Young said the grasshopper's pink hue is a dominant gene – similar to brown eyes in humans – where only one parent needs to have the gene for it to appear in a child. The pink grasshoppers would be more common if they weren't eaten by birds, small rodents and other insects.
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