{"id":7057,"date":"2019-08-08T16:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2019-08-09T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:35:45","slug":"grasshoppers-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/grasshoppers-up-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshoppers up close!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9308-GT-Meadow-Grasshopper-847x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9308-GT-Meadow-Grasshopper-847x1024.jpg 847w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9308-GT-Meadow-Grasshopper-124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9308-GT-Meadow-Grasshopper-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9308-GT-Meadow-Grasshopper-768x929.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9308-GT-Meadow-Grasshopper.jpg 1548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><figcaption>Meadow Grasshopper in Gunnersbury Triangle&#8217;s Anthill Meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RSCN9297-GT-Field-Grasshopper-on-refugium-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RSCN9297-GT-Field-Grasshopper-on-refugium-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RSCN9297-GT-Field-Grasshopper-on-refugium-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RSCN9297-GT-Field-Grasshopper-on-refugium-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RSCN9297-GT-Field-Grasshopper-on-refugium-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RSCN9297-GT-Field-Grasshopper-on-refugium.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Field Grasshopper, on a refugium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9302-GT-Common-Darter-in-picnic-meadow-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9302-GT-Common-Darter-in-picnic-meadow-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9302-GT-Common-Darter-in-picnic-meadow-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9302-GT-Common-Darter-in-picnic-meadow-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9302-GT-Common-Darter-in-picnic-meadow-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9302-GT-Common-Darter-in-picnic-meadow.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Common Darter female on dried bramble in Picnic Meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9322-red-underwing-Jersey-Tiger-830x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9322-red-underwing-Jersey-Tiger-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9322-red-underwing-Jersey-Tiger-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9322-red-underwing-Jersey-Tiger-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSCN9322-red-underwing-Jersey-Tiger-768x947.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><figcaption>Jersey Tiger by pond boardwalk with red underwing; yellow underwing specimens are also visible around the reserve. The underwing colour appears as a startling flash when the insect takes off, but unlike many other moths, grasshoppers and so on which have such deimatic coloration, the Jersey Tiger is conspicuous when it rests. There must be a reason for the polymorphism; perhaps the startle effect works better when a predator has not seen too many insects with a particular underwing colour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[496,1497,1496,712,1317,817],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-common-darter","tag-deimatic-coloration","tag-field-grasshopper","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-jersey-tiger","tag-meadow-grasshopper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}