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Canon Image Challenge | all galleries >> Challenges From The Past >> 2015 Challenges >> CIChallenge 145 : The Fall, (verb or noun, singular or plural), is Upon Us >> CIC145 - Eligible > "Exploding" Grasshopper
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05-NOV-2015 Jim B (MSP)

"Exploding" Grasshopper

Madera Canyon, AZ

I found another one today worth shooting for eligible.
This Pallid-winged grasshopper has recently eaten something containing a poisonous fungus. He has crawled to the top of a branch, locked his feet on to it, and died. Soon the fungus will devour his insides, swelling to the point where it will literally explode out through the outside exoskeleton.

Canon EOS 60D ,Tamron 16-300mm
1/400s f/6.3 at 300.0mm iso160 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Canon Image Challenge06-Nov-2015 20:58
Paul - re wet year, you are spot on. We had our normal year's rainfall by mid Oct. Still not so much, though, by midwest standards.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge06-Nov-2015 04:11
Exactly right about the hopper, natural fungus is the best pest control available for those suckers. It must have been a wetter than usual year there. Paul