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Foaming Grasshopper from South Africa

Posted by November 20th, 2007 at 1:00 am

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Toxic Milkweed Grasshoppers

What’s this bug’s name?
SEEN IN HERMON, SOUTH AFRICA, LAST MONTH. CAN YOU HELP ME? THANKS,
LYNNE

foaming grasshopper lynne Foaming Grasshopper from South Africa

Hi Lynne,
This is a Foaming Grasshopper, Dictyophorus spumans, one of the toxic, milkweed eating, Gaudy Grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae.

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