A "must have" grasshopper

[swords]

The Peruvian Horsehead Grasshopper
pseudoproscopia latirostris




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Not my critter but check out the awesome photo set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hooked_on_macro/3219642795/in/set-72157601285835557/

They have such an amusing Dr. Seuss creature face. Like a living claymation figures!

I wish I had a place to acquire some from inside the US - they get 8" in size.

 

[fish30]

Lol!

 

[uphwiz]

you have got to be kidding me , that is as cool as your ghost mantis.
nice find.

 

[larry]

Such a comical face!

 

[swords]

Fish you need to buy these offa the UK eBay and ship them to me! LOL

J/K

Seller doesn't ship to US for legal schmegal reasons... If something is cool it shouldn't be illegal.

 

[swords]

I thought about this goofy little critter all day at work!

I need to figure out how to get an insect zoo setup so I can get a permit to import all the arthropods of my dreams. MN doesn't have anything more exotic than a tank full of madagascar hissers at the real zoo so how hard could it be to get a grant and setup the MN Insectarium? Anybody here know anything about founding an institution?

The place would of course have to feature insect eating plants as well, I mean come on! LOL

 

[Pyro]

Swords, what you need to do is find people here in the US who work with grasshoppers/katydids anyways and see if they can help you. I had to help out a buddy a while ago locating some tropical katydids that bred year round rather than seasonally and there are some strange grasshopper people out there let me tell you.

 

[swords]

All bug people are buggy! LOL

Speaking of Katydids a guy on the tarantulas.us forum just posted pics of a Katydid eating a lizard like a mantis would:
http://www.tarantulas.us/forums/showthread.php?t=26468