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Foaming Grasshopper from South Africa

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

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Grasshoppers

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

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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