What strange thing is the grasshopper carrying?

in #photography6 years ago (edited)

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Hello earthlings, it's me again, hahaha. Today I bring you this grasshopper or grasshopper, as they tell you in some places, this thing that he has on him is very rare, I did a little research on the internet and could not find out what they are, these strange things that live on him, I first thought They were their own eggs, but grasshoppers lay their eggs in the soil about 2 or 3 cm deep. After reviewing some articles, I only found that there is a parasite that perches on some grasshoppers and even modifies its behavior so that it jumps into the water and drowns so that the adult worm lives in the water. The truth is not sure what the hell this is, if you know something please leave me a comment because I am interested in knowing what that is, if it is a parasite or something, it is not going to be a plague or something like that . Although I have swept the area reviewing every insect I get (I love photographing them) and I have never seen anything like this, the truth.


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If I have learned anything in my life and years in nature, it is that in animals the striking colors almost always mean poison, in the fruits something attractive to be food and the animals or the human water their seed, but in insects some colors they mean abvertence and bad taste, but in insects that are weak and easy prey like the grasshopper, it is an invitation to be eaten much faster than others because if they attract a lot of attention, predators easily locate them, which makes me think that if this is A parasite is its natural pharma to make the grasshopper take it inside an animal, I do not know, is what my logic says, since most grasshoppers want to camouflage themselves and go unnoticed., hahaha, this has made me curious And I have made this post because surely someone who knows much more about grasshoppers than me will tell me what the hell is this grasshopper carrying on him. Although it seems like a lie, there are people around the world who raise grasshoppers, they can search the information on the network and they will see, mainly to eat them, the truth is that I have eaten everything, but since a while ago I have tried to follow the altruistic path, which later it took me to go to another way of life, to transform my way of living no longer like any wild animal, since I took this path where I learned that we are one with nature I try to do the least possible damage to nature and the beings that inhabit it , even before when I ate everything, I don't think I would have dared to eat grasshoppers, although I have also heard and read a bit that worms are raised to eat, that would be an alternative, hahaha, for those who dare, someday I want to get to the level of just eating fruits and vegetables, little by little I am working on this, it is not so easy here you should eat what there is and not what we want, but I have reduced the consumption of meat by 90% very few v If you eat it, my children almost don't like meat anymore, something good for them.


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Yesterday, between breaks, what did I do to catch my breath, back in my lands, which I am cleaning to sow in this winter season, at that time the breeze came strong, and I took the opportunity to reflect because that moment despite being very exhausted by the continuous effort it was magical and I could feel how nature heals us, in addition to feeding us with its energy, the truth despite my broken hands, I love to work the land, but I know that I will enjoy more when she gives fruits, because there is no: How to eat something that you planted, for which you worked that land with affection, you saw the seed grow, its plant stages and especially that when you see the fruit in all its splendor, I do not know why I like the field so much, I think that because it reminds me of my late grandfather and those beautiful memories of a child, with all his land planted, a beautiful garden where you could find everything, in a beautiful balance, he always said: "even weeds are needed in a garden, to maintain balance and that nature itself controls pests, there will always be pests that eat from your garden, but in a low percentage, for this balance and it is better this on a large scale of pests for not having that balance in the orchard "and stressed:" this always remembers it "always in my memories I look at myself taking the carrots out of the ground, I was going to wash them and eat them like that, that fascinates me even after years of that experience with my grandfather, old Chucho , that's how we called him and when I arrived at his garden he would yell at him. Chucho, where are you that I don't hear? and he answered: "in the corner of Ayacucho looking for a saw" hahaha.




Camera: Panasonic lumix DMC-FZ50.

Lent: Leica 1: 2.8-3.7 / 7.4-88.8.

Location: Villa de Cura.

Original photographs of willsaldeno, I do not edit the photos, because I like to put only what I achieve with the camera and not something improved with an editor.