Can anyone possibly explain this?
🔥 Really cool grasshopper spotted in a backyard in S.E. Michigan.

Sep 13, 2021 · 3:14 AM UTC

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This is a grasshopper dressed for the Burning Man Festival.
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This is Dactylorum Bicolor more commonly known as the rainbow grass hopper. Their colors are used to mimic other animals that use aposemetism in order to show predators they aren’t worth eating I.e brightly colored poison dart frogs. In the case of the grasshopper they are most
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It's on UBI and had enough free time to take artistic liberties with its appearance
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It’s so amazing
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One very long happy hour at the Rainforest Cafe
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insects are super old and have had way more time to evolve to be really weird than most other animals
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"The insect's coloration was shown to be aposematic in an experiment of predation by little striped whiptail lizards." Scares away predators en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyl…
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