We’ve were hit with a veritable plague of grasshoppers a couple of weeks ago. Occasionally, we’d pick up a hitchhiker on the car, including this one that landed on the windshield, and provided a rather unique perspective for a photo.
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Eric, we get to carry those little critters sometimes for a couple of miles when we are on graveled roads, but once we hit a higher speed it is amazing how long they can still hang on.
They are tenacious, alright. I can never figure out how their claws can hold onto the glass so tightly.
But I have to make sure everyone understands that I wasn’t driving when I took this photo (really!). We stopped in the alley so Debbie could check the mailbox, and I grabbed the point-and-shoot that I always keep in the car for just such opportunities.
Am I the only one creeped out by this photo?! Giant killer grasshoppers floating in the sky…would make a good B-movie. But seriously, that’s an amazing photo. You sure can’t tell there’s any glass between you and the subject. Has the Entomological Appreciation Society of America contacted you yet?
Gwynne…that would be an awesome movie. But it would definitely also need Robots.
I have a good picture of a walking stick I found sitting on my car a couple of days ago. Your grasshopper looks fiercer, though!
Okay. That is too cool.