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Giant Grasshopper

Tropidacris cristata

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Description:

I managed to get a few pictures of these Giant Grasshoppers that were outside my home but it was not easy to be there with this giants flying around, some bigger some smaller.

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Giant grasshopper

Tropidacris cristata

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PublishedAugust 31, 2013

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