Garden locust nymph in molt
I was fortunate enough to watch the little nymph molting from start to finish last month. The whole process took around 30 minutes. It was still a nymph when it emerged, just a bigger one. Absolutely fascinating, I had never seen this before.
The photo below was the next molt when the nymph became an adult locust:
Acanthacris ruficornis is found virtually throughout Africa south of the Sahara. It is eaten as food by people in the northern parts of South Africa (Chesler 1938), as well as in Congo and the Sahel (i.e. the band of arid savannah just south of the Sahara) (van Huis 1996). Pallatable grasshoppers and locusts are normally cooked, fried or roasted, after the legs and wings have been removed. In South Africa it is the common large brown grasshopper found in people's gardens, often referred to erroneously.. more
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