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Grasshopper Photo Taken In Nanning But Only After Searching In Grass To Which The Grasshopper Had Jumped
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It was a sunny day as we walked across a grass field, then the unexpected happened. A grasshopper made one of its 'olympic' hops, out of the grass in front of us, although at the time we did not know it was a grasshopper. All that we were aware of was that something had hopped out of the grass making a whirring sound as it flew through the air to another spot in the grassfield.
One friend said it was a grasshopper, another said it was a dragon! As can be seen from the grasshopper photo on this page, most of its colors were almost the same as the colors of the grass! As soon as the grasshopper photo was taken, it took another mighty hop further away from us. |
After the grasshopper had made its first jump out of the grass, and we had decided to take a photo of the grasshopper, the problem was to find its location. We knew in which direction it had made its record breaking hop, but the colors of the grasshopper blended so well with the grass itself, it was very difficult to see from our standing positions. The grasshopper photo itself does not give a true impression of its size, as the photo was taken with the camera lens fully extended. Perhaps it can generally be agreed that the grasshopper in the photo is a very beautiful looking insect. |
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*** Grasshoppers In Popular Culture:
Aesop (620 to 560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece told a tale called The Ant and the Grasshopper. In this tale, the ant worked hard preparing his shelter and stores of food all summer, while the grasshopper played. Once the winter came, the ant was prepared and the grasshopper, having no shelter or food begs to enter the ant's house. The ant refuses and the grasshopper starves to death.
The 1957 film Beginning of the End featured mutated giant grasshoppers attacking Chicago. "Grasshopper" is a term currently used in jest referencing a person who has much to learn. Its use originating from the television show Kung Fu
(1972-1975) in which the student, Young Caine, portrayed by Radames Pera is taking instruction from his Master Po portrayed by Keye Luke who nicknamed his student "Grasshopper" as a term of endearment.
In the 1998 movie A Bug's Life, in an apparent homage to the Aesop fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper, where the heroes are the members of an ant colony, and the lead villain and his henchmen are grasshoppers, the lead villain is then eaten by a bird.
The Japanese superhero franchise "Kamen Rider" originally had a grasshopper motif, with a grasshopper based helmet and costume. This was later toned down in favour of other motifs in more recent Kamen Rider series, though some features of the original hero remain ('bug eyes'). Src:Wikipedia.Org ***
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