... i share some of my finds with you all.Grasshoppers in Birmingham are well, bigger. This is a Southeastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea Microptera) next to a quarter for comparison. they have very ... they have yellow bee like bands that run the length of their abdomens. Another interesting grasshopper i've come across is this little guy. At first i thought it was in the pygmy grasshopper family ( ...

... around one side of the kennel, trying to get to something inside with their paws. Usually when they do that, it's a big horse lubber grasshopper, sometimes a millipede, and rarely, a rodent. Today it took me a bit to figure out what they were so excited about because it was very small: a baby Mantis, about an inch long. So I took a picture of it ...