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Young, with growing wings
they are poisonous (called aposematic colouration).” They are sometimes called ...
Photographed near "Vulture Restaurant" in Pilanesberg Game Reserve.
Also known as the Green Milkweed Locust or ...
Found these in the early morning in the thorn trees.
On a native milkweed plant i planted in my ...
Very large (8 to 10cm) and colorful locust.
approx 3" long with very hard body. the under wing is red in color.
loads of these grasshoppers, in various ...
± 10 cm grasshopper - light green grey in ...
Green Milkweed Locust or African Bush
Beautifully colored grasshopper. Bright red ...
large dark grasshopper; feeds on
several inches long, very long antennae, brown ovipositor / Is this a katydid? ...
Venomous large grasshopper, eats poisonous ...
Phymateus viridipes Stal, aka Green
commonly called the Toxic Milkweed
Big (at least 8cm long) green grasshopper. ...
± 8 cm - Bright red with black bands.
colourful medium-large grasshopper, about ...
plants in the milkweed family, which ...
from its diet, which includes a large number of toxic and distasteful plants ...
A LARGE black locust with red markings.
Female colouration is usually uniform, either brown or green. Males have two ...
from the family Pyrgomorphidae. A medium to large
Green Milkweed Locust or African Bush
an extremely colourful large grasshopper or ...
Colourful locust spotted after a noisy altercation between a Crested barbet and ...
The Koppie foam grasshopper grows up to a ...
Same spotting as previously, but macro shots. It is seldom that one has the ...
about 70 millimetres (2.8 in) long at maturity and capable of long migratory ...
logs. Nests are made with grasses, leaves, hair, feathers,
Some type of Katydid? A green insect similar in some ways to a