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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1169 W: 4 N: 3262]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (14691) | I found this grasshopper enjoying the Delhi Weather and particularly the soft flower bed.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Grasshoppers are 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 (Zeuner 1939).
Exposure Time: 1/500
F-Stop: f/6.3
ISO Speed Ratings: 320
Focal Length: 180/1 mm
Date Taken: 2008-11-02 10:56
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
File Size: 258 kb
Thanks for looking.
Ganesh |
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gannu
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cropping & cloning
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gannu
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Photofiltre & Irfanview
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Hi Ganesh,
I attempted a workshop to try and suggest a good composition,but I don't think I've done very well really.
A lot of detail was lost in the rotation,so I've had to sharpen it again.
Also,I had to fill in the black corners cut off by the rotating and cropping,and I cloned over a couple of the brighter leaves, but my cloning was a bit rushed, so not as good as it might have been.
Anyway, that was roughly what I had in mind.
Hope you don't mind me mucking about with your photo like that :o
Cheers
Steve |
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