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Grasshoppers mating, odd detail??

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If you zoom in on this photo, I can't work out what is happening. The female, underneath, has something emerging from her rear end. Sperm package from male, her ovipositor, faeces?? Any ideas would be most welcome.

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PublishedSeptember 11, 2014

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