
Hopping the meadows
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

"Pseudochorthippus parallelus", the "meadow grasshopper", is a common species of grasshopper found in non-arid grasslands throughout the well vegetated areas of Europe and some adjoining areas of Asia.
Similar species: Grasshoppers And Crickets
By Ludo Sak
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Uploaded Oct 6, 2012. Captured Oct 6, 2012 16:07 in Brandstraat 13, 6003 Weert, The Netherlands.
comments (7)
Apparently it wasn't scared by your camera to take this close shot! Posted 12 years ago, modified 12 years ago
I had my camera setup ready for another bug and the remote stuck on, I was a few meters away and took a lot of shots. I was really lucky to get the focus right. Never had a grasshopper shot before. Posted 12 years ago