#orthoptera

Stick grasshoppers in the tribe Proscopiini

Found in Central and South America

Pygmy Grasshopper (Lophotettix sp.), family Tetrigidae, Amazonian Peru

Prairie Boopie Boopedon gracile

my good friend Pycnogaster cucullata - mouse-sized beast, maker of high-pitched hums, and lumberer extraordinaire - very clearly prefers to hang out hidden in dense, spiky bushes like gorse in my experience. this one, though, was wandering around on fennel for some reason, which is the exact opposite of a dense plant, allowing me to get a pretty good look at him

i considered handling him for better photos, and easily could have, but even small katydids are famously bitey so i didn't really feel like testing my luck against something of such hippopotamus-like proportions

Freaking CONEHEAD JUST FLEW RIGHT INTO ME