Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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How's about this chap I spotted in the garden this morning ? (apologies for the psychodelic dancefloor!!)
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Another nice picture Paul, and much more interesting than anything Hollywood could ever produce. Is that their normal colour?
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A genetic mutation as far as I can find out on Google !
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the said specie has beem mentioned in the local press(express) a family up at buckland raised the alarm, i believe they are described as purple although to my eye they are definitley pink.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Oh gawd, baffled here. Might be a Meadow grasshopper as the females have short wings, but really not sure. Grasshoppers are really variable in colour, even amongst the same species, so you can't go by colour alone. Definitely a beauty though.
Eugh .
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There is a feature about this variety of grasshopper in the Dover Express this week page 3. Its a common green grasshopper Omocestus Viridulus...but... the purple form of it. All that courtesy of the Dover Express.
Gosh we all posted at the same time saying the same thing!
Good shot Paul.
Whooops Ive had various stabs at spelling that but now its right..ermm I think
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Oooh he's cool.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thanks Paul - how I spotted him/her in the thousands that are on our lawn at the moment, I do not know... perhaps it was with fright over the combined harvester turning up in the field this morning !!
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What a really fab photo! Expertly taken and a real opportunity-moment well spotted! Thank you.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Note the large thigh`s on it.
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Colin!! What are you saying.................?
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I wasn`t sure if your likes extended to the insect world Bern.
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What's a species between friends, Colin?
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Thanks Bern, but I`m not sure you could teach him/her to play scrabble though?
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Each to their own talent and strength, Colin!!
Gay grasshoppers, whatever next!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i feel certain that the grasshopper will stonewall your remark sid.
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