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Grasshopper on Echinacea


Grasshopper on Echinacea
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Copyright: angela LL (angela926) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 473 W: 19 N: 797] (3069)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-08-21
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 40 D, EF28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: f/14.0, 1/320 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-09-18 11:08
Viewed: 600
Points: 24
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
A grasshopper on an echinacea in quebec canada.

Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish them from bush crickets or katydids, they are sometimes referred to as short-horned grasshoppers. Species that change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts.
Grasshoppers have antennae that are almost always shorter than the body (sometimes filamentous), and short ovipositors. Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdomen (stridulation), or by snapping the wings in flight. Tympana, if present, are on the sides of the first abdominal segment. The hind femora are typically long and strong, fitted for leaping. Generally they are winged, but hind wings are membranous while front wings (tegmina) are coriaceous and not fit for flight. Females are normally larger than males, with short ovipositors. Males have a single unpaired plate at the end of the abdomen. Females have two pairs of valves ( triangles) at the end of the abdomen used to dig in sand when egg laying.

They are easily confused with the other sub-order of Orthoptera, Ensifera, but are different in many aspects, such as the number of segments in their antennae and structure of the ovipositor, as well as the location of the tympana and modes of sound production. Ensiferans have antennae with at least 20-24 segments, and caeliferans have fewer. In evolutionary terms, the split between the Caelifera and the Ensifera is no more recent than the Permo-Triassic boundary
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Hello Angela
what a nice macro-shot for very beautiful flower and grasshopper. Splendid colors, great sharp details of focus. Lighting, POV and composition also very nice. TFS, best wishes
Ahmet

Hi Angela,
Beautiful work, this hopper is all dressed up with nowhere to go ;)
Seriously, this is an excellent capture with the echinacea/hopper combo a winner.
Very good detail/DOF, color, exposure, POV, and comp.
Howard

Hello Angela.
A wonderful composition with visual very pleasant!
Excellent coloration and definition.
I liked of this combination chromatic.
Well done!
José Roberto

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  • crs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 523 W: 0 N: 920] (3543)
  • [2008-09-18 21:14]

Hello Ahgela,

You have made a fine photo. I like the sharpness of your image showing good details of the grasshopper as well as the flower beneath. There are very nice colors in your image and a well looking contrast between insect and flower.

Thank you for sharing,
Cristian

Hello Angela,

a nice macro shot with a beautiful flower that i have been in my garden and the Grasshopper.
Good of sharpness and details.

Gert

Hello Angela,

It seems the season for grasshoppers!!
This is a fine shot! The details of the grasshopper and the echinacea are equally sharp!
I like how you have captured him hauling himself up onto the petal! It looks hard work!
Well chosen dof.

Kind regards,
Bev :-)

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  • ubc64 Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 31 W: 3 N: 86] (292)
  • [2008-09-19 12:38]

Hi Angela,

Very nice shot! I generally find it difficult to get the focusing right on grasshoppers. It looks like you had no such trouble. I don't think that I've ever seen a grasshopper on a cone flower. It certainly made for an interesting photo. Did you actually see the grasshopper eat any of the flower? If so, which part did it eat? It looks like it's going to munch on the center. TFS.

John

What a gorgeously and beautifully captured image... the detail and the color are just fantastic. Very well done... Thanks so much for sharing... and for the informative notes as well. :)

Larry

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  • Adanac Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1169 W: 1 N: 5208] (17609)
  • [2008-09-20 7:19]

Hello Angela,
Incredibly colorful image with fantastic sharpness and depth of field. What a delightful eye catching image, thank you Angela for sharing.
Rick

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  • EOSF1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1381 W: 126 N: 5246] (23469)
  • [2008-09-20 15:00]
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Hello Angela, what a great capture, I love the composition and all the technical elements, it's a beauty. I can't find the lens you wrote on your shot presentation: Canon ef-s 17-135 f4-5.6 IS USM is that an error?
Well done, thanks!

Mario

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  • hains Silver Star Critiquer [C: 10 W: 0 N: 4] (685)
  • [2008-09-24 5:38]

Hi Angela


Wounderful macro picture. Good hue and saturation. You had the chance to capture it.

Mario

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  • Maite Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1007 W: 64 N: 1266] (5195)
  • [2008-11-03 1:19]

Excellent macro taken from a good POV with great sharpness and fitting DOF. The colorful flower and the splendid framing and composition with the grasshopper popping out make it really attractive.
Congratulations and TFS
Greetings
Maite

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