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Grasshopper Near Miles City Montana

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Where did you see that?

 

The Internet.

 

And you believed it?

 

Yeah.

 

They can't put anything on the Internet that isn't true.

 

Where did you see that?

 

The Internet.

 

Oh Look, here comes my date. I met him on the internet. He's a french model.

 

Bonjour.

 

:):)

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Was actually on a postcard a long time before internet iirc. Along with a couple guys carrying out hoppers on a pole and the well known jackalopes. There was also the spud that was a wagon load for a green tractor and another that filled a flatcar. Them post depression era photographers had wild imaginations and could do tricks with film.

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Hunting was hot and heavy around Miles City once the word got out.
However With no imposed bag limit the grasshoppers were soon to be doomed.

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The above grasshopper pictures are funny.  BUT ... this Lubber was on our back door.  Second one we've seen and killed.  For scale, from the tip of my index finger to the skin at the thumb joint is just shy of 6".

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Most animals won't eat them, since they accumulate foul tasting chemicals from the plants they eat.  Shrikes will kill them, impale them on a spike/thorn and wait a few days for them to "age" ... then eat them.

 

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They are a bit surreal aren't they?  The sub-adults are black with a few yellow pin stripes, they look like something from a demon's garden.

 

Swamp

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Never tried fishing with one.  I don't have any hooks large enough to tie a mimic, either!

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