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πŸ¦— Grasshoppers & Crickets

Rainbow Grasshopper

Dactylotum variegatum

About

A small short-winged grasshopper brightly patterned in red, orange, blue, and black. Despite its vivid warning colors, it is not actually toxic. It is slow-moving and easy to observe.

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Did You Know?

Its striking rainbow coloring is a bluff; it has no toxins but mimics the appearance of genuinely poisonous insects.