Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

[Carol Dee]

 

[TEG Project Manager]

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Congrats @Carol Dee - your beautiful pic is this week's POW winner and is featured on our homepage! Is that a Red-legged Grasshopper?

 

[Jane23]

I found one grasshopper the other day that was massive. I thought I almost stepped on a toad, but it was really a grasshopper that had an abdomen the size of my thumb and was the length of my middle finger. I showed it to my husband and even he couldn't believe it was that large.

I kind of wonder how it did get that large. Was it eating the little guys? 🤔

 

[Carol Dee]

Oh WOW, if was fun opening the TEG home page and seeing my grasshopper photo in the POW spot! Thanks for the honor.

 

[flowerbug]

...I kind of wonder how it did get that large. Was it eating the little guys? 🤔

grasshoppers don't normally eat other grasshoppers but there is some references saying that they will eat some dead animals at times so perhaps they'd eat a dead grasshopper? dunno for sure, but kinda doubt it. just that they get big at this time of the year. we get some nice sized ones here too.

 

[Jane23]

grasshoppers don't normally eat other grasshoppers, but there are some references saying that they will eat some dead animals at times so perhaps they'd eat a dead grasshopper? dunno for sure, but kinda doubt it. just that they get big at this time of the year. we get some nice sized ones here too.

I have never seen one that big. If it had time to keep growing, I think I could ride it soon—no pesticides or chemicals around here to enhance it either.

 

[Carol Dee]

Not a blade of grass or deck board to be seen! Time to rake.

Sprinkles on new fallen leaves

 

[catjac1975]

I love how Datura puts on it's show when so little color is left. It will not quit until the coldest of cold.

 

[catjac1975]

Triple yellow Datura.

 

[catjac1975]

The 5 leaved wild Virgiania Creeper vine is rather ordinary all summer. This time of year I am glad I did not rip it off the garden fence.