Lubber Grasshopper

Description:

Copulation attempts often proceeded without any signaling or display from the male. A male would slowly approach a female, and if he entered the female’s line of vision, she would begin vigorously waving her large rear legs and brightly colored antennae. Such displays either caused the male to retreat or to attempt to mount. Females were always active when mounting was attempted, and they would kick at mounting males and move away from them if possible.

Habitat:

Seen in garden of a house near Guaplies quite close to the Costa Rica River. Climate here is tropical and temperatures are at a comfortable level (between twenty °C (68.0°F) and thirty °C (86.0°F) roughly, all yesr. Humidity was quite high when I saw this as it was in July, a rainy season.

Notes:

Mating grasshoppers