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Posts Tagged: grasshopper
News Flash: Don't Miss 'Current Techniques in Morphology'
You won't want to miss this. A year-long project on "Current Techniques in Morphology" was posted...
One of the articles in the journal deals with "Jumping and Grasping: Universal Locking Mechanism in Insect Legs." This image is a banded-winged grasshopper, family Acrididae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Katy Did, Katy Didn't!
I've always rather liked katydids. Anyone who is called "Kate" or "Katy" in their childhood...
A camouflaged katydid, its body resembling a leaf, feeds on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The katydid bends to feed on a Tithonia leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up view of a katydid. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The katydid continues to feed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Buggy New Year!
It's a buggy new year! One of the fascinating things about beginning the new year is the...
This photo of a black soldier fly, by Jena Johnson, is "Mr. October" in the ESA calendar. (Photo by Jena Johnson, used with permission)
The ESA calendar cover features this clown grasshopper by Francisco Lopez-Machado of Cali, Colombia. (Photo courtesy of ESA)
"Mr. December" in the ESA calendar is this image of a flameskimmer dragonfly, taken by Kathy Keatley Garvey of UC Davis.
Hop to It!
What's that hopping on our patio? At first we thought it was a grasshopper. Not! It was a...
A katydid, or "long-horned grasshopper," from family Tettigonliidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It Pays to Be a Relative
Plants communicate. They do. Ecologist Richard Karban, a professor in the UC Davis Department of...
Grasshopper feeding on sagebrush. (Photo courtesy of Rick Karban)
Rick Karban collecting volatile (chemical) cues.