Cricket!

[moonlettuce]

So, I was sitting on the front door step earlier (it was sunny and I sit there and play random stuff through YouTube and then sing along ::grin::) and saw what I thought was a leaf blowing across the path. And the it stop and lifted a leg up. Turns out it was a cricket. Now, the thing is, I've never actually seen a cricket before (much to the amusement of everyone else, who were all "Really?!"), so I did what any normal person would do when confronted by a strange and wondrous creature... I grabbed the camera.



Only, I figured that was kind of a distance shot, and I'm still in love with the close-up function, so I got a little closer.













Everyone then mocked me for getting snap-happy. Well, paf I say... 74 pictures of a cricket is totally reasonable ::grin::

ETA: After a couple of comments and looking online, she's more likely a grasshopper than a cricket, as the nearest I could find was the long-winged conehead grasshopper :D

Comments

[instantramen]

I could be wrong, since I never really studied cricket biology and anyway that cricket looks a lot bigger and greener than the ones around here, but it looks a lot like you caught a female in the middle of laying her eggs.

[moonlettuce]

She was indeed. We were like, what's she? ah...

Which means there'll be babies bopping around here at some point (although after we leave).

And she's probably a grasshopper, and not a cricket, after looking online :D Although you can get green crickets around here :D

[instantramen]

Nothing like a Discovery Channel moment to weird up your day! Even the grasshoppers I've seen haven't been very green, but the katydids are great at passing for leaves.

[moonlettuce]

I really thought she was a leaf until she started moving in a very un-leaf like way ::grin::

[instantramen]

It's really a good thing she can't use those ninja powers for evil.