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12-Mar-04, 11:32 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: No where | | |
I found this thing when i was leaving work today, it's the biggest bloody grasshopper i've ever seen. Anyone know what it is? Big spikes all over it's legs, nasty looking bugger.
The pic ain't the best but it took off just after the first pic. |
13-Mar-04, 12:57 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-03 Location: Oz - Whoop Whoop | | | | Damnit it's a locust!
MM lol
all i know is that looks horrible and like a very big dragons dinner |
13-Mar-04, 03:47 AM
| | | It is a cross between the pan-asian locustus asianus and the North african saharan locius. Somtimes carried on the sea winds to different parts of the globe. There is mention of the in Asterix and Oblix and the black gold.
Moses 
p.s. Joking, Looks Like a regular green grasshopper that we see in Barbados all the time |
13-Mar-04, 11:08 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | My hubby reckons its called a Katydid, a cross between a cricket and a grasshopper, and they do a lot of damage to fruit crops. Cheers Cheryl. PS. Not quite sure about the spelling. :roll: |
13-Mar-04, 12:45 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | great lizard food...lol |
13-Mar-04, 10:12 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | I found a webpage about Katydids on the net. Its in the Morwell National Park website. |
13-Mar-04, 10:29 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Darwin Age: 18 | | | our grasshoppers are bigger 
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14-Mar-04, 12:33 AM
| | | ohh yea I rekon hey Tommo, they are huge, a big would be 3 or 4 times the size of that  |
14-Mar-04, 05:18 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | Its definitely a Katydid!!! |
14-Mar-04, 06:06 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Red Centre Age: 30 | | | | Yep it is a katydid.....if you want to know what it is go to the museum and have it identified...
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14-Mar-04, 08:10 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | Thanks insectovor, glad someone else knows bout the "Katydids" besides us. We quite often(well rarely) find em in our back yard, and usually near the back door. they are big buggas hey? |
14-Mar-04, 09:15 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: No where | | | | 3 or 4 times thats size, get a pic. That one was bigger than my middle finger, i'd like to see one 3 or 4 that again. |
14-Mar-04, 09:26 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | Next time we find one near our back door, we will measure it ok? We just let it go its own way hey? Cheers Cheryl | |
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