Jan 22, 2010: Two Headed Hopper

[xoxoxoBruce]

Juan Jaramillo of Medellín, Colombia, is a bird watcher and photographer of insects, especially butterflies.

My country is one of the most biodiverse in the world, we are number one or two in the number of species of birds, butterflies, orchids and anphibians, so I will try to share with You wath I can photograph.

Jaun post this picture of a two headed Grasshopper on TREKnature.



His description

This insect belongs to the Orthoptera order, where the grasshoppers, crickets and katydids are.
I don't know the scientific name. The animal looks like it has two heads, and the red one is more attractive probably to distract a possible predator from the real one .
The picture was taken in a farm with an old coffee plantation, in Amaga, state of Antioquia, Colombia. The altitude is 1.400 m above sea level.

Granted Jaun's English is a little rough, but it's a hell of a lot better than my Spanish.
That hopper ain't scared, he tells his predators, Bite my ass.