#toothpick grasshopper

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Cattail toothpick grasshopper (Leptysma marginicollis) with erythrism, a genetic condition that causes an excessive amount of red pigments or lack of non-red pigments in animals. This species is usually brown or green.

Photographed in Mississippi by mcferny

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The long-headed toothpick grasshopper (Achurum carinatum) lives and feeds among tall grass in the southeast US.

They’re flightless and not very fast or agile by grasshopper standards, but like a stick insect their camouflage seems to make up for it!

In Florida, they breed year-round and are abundant in this prairie habitat in January when few other insects are active.

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