Last week, Life Science Manager Sarah Moore sent out the following email to all Pacific Science Center employees:
Ok. Most of you will come running for baby naked mole-rats, but did you know that grasshopper babies are cute too? We have at least three hatchlings out in the lubber grasshopper cage, and will probably get more. This is the first time we have had a complete life cycle of this species so we are pretty happy.
What to look for? The babies are shiny black with yellow markings, and look like tiny versions of adult grasshoppers only uncannily, where a big grasshopper looks like it’s going to destroy your crops, the babies look adorable. So adorable that the Horticulture Department took one look at them and offered to sacrifice some bamboo to feed them.
Come check them out.
Cute, cute! I love 'em. Great photography, Terry!
ReplyDeletei got one hopping in my house but its end is golden.... im not sure if is a type of grasshoppers
ReplyDeletei have a hole flower bed full of them and one in a jar
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