Two Mating Grasshopper with Sky Background | 10% Beneficiary to shy-fox

I usually ignored grasshopper as it is a kind of insect that is quite easy to find and not really a special insect that made me take a shot but this time I dealt with a different scene. The reason I took the pictures was the sky background. I took these pictures long ago somewhere around the reservoir and when I was about to the place, I noticed this couple was enjoying a romantic afternoon. So I decided to look for a proper position that I would probably find the sky as the background. These are big grasshoppers that used to be seen bouncing in the grass but in this situation, they become very quiet insects as other creatures do. Grasshoppers belong to the order of Orthoptera, in phylum Arthropod. Grasshoppers feed on plants, a few species of grasshopper is considered serious pests of cereals, vegetables, and pasture, especially when they swarm in their millions as locusts and destroy crops over wide areas.

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is probably the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.source

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Camera	Nikon D7000
Category	Insect Photography
Lens	Tamron Tele-Macro 70-300