Uninvited but Welcome Guest まだ帰りませんってば！

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

The guest has been staying at a friend's house since a week ago. The friend's been checking up on the guest every day for the week, but the guest seems to have no intention to leave, just clinging on to a leaf of a ponytail palm tree (Beaucarnea recurvata). We're worried about the guest because it should die soon. The guest is a grasshopper. 

I wondered why some grasshoppers are green while others brown and learned today they change the color from green to brown and vice versa in response to environmental conditions (e.g., overcrowding). I just wish this uninvited but welcome guest to live as comfortably as possible.   

Grasshopper (Atractomorpha) オンブバッタ（負飛蝗）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These are grasshoppers. Simple and clear. The issue is, however, their relationship. For example, a man passing by me taking these photos said that they were a parent and a child. Ha ha! He's mistaken. They are a male and a female grasshoppers and you know what? The bigger one is female, meaning a female grasshopper is piggybacking a male counterpart😆! And that's why in Japan, the grasshopper is called "piggybacking grasshopper." I can't laugh at the guy however. I also assumed that they were a mother and a child😂!

A female grasshopper is piggybacking a male counterpart　雌が雄をおんぶ

  

Longheaded Locust (Atractomorpha Lata) オンブバッタ（負飛蝗）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Yesterday it was about a fly on a yellow cosmos and today it's about a longheaded locust (Atractomorpha lata). As almost all flowers are gone but yellow cosmoses in my neighborhood because of the recent heatwave, the cosmoses may be the only place for bugs to rest now. The locust's Japanese name is "Ombu batta," meaning piggybacking grasshoppers because their females are often seen piggybacking the males (not vice versa!). I want to see such a couple someday!    

Longheaded locust (Atractomorpha lata)　オンブバッタ（負飛蝗）

Acrida Cinerea (Chinese Grasshopper) 精霊蝗虫（ショウリョウバッタ）

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Can you see that? If not, take a look at the second photo. This is acrida cinerea or more commonly known as Chinese grasshopper. It landed on a leaf just in front of me when I was taking photos of skunk vines. The green colors of the grasshopper and the leaves are so beautiful!! 

The grasshopper has several Japanese names, including "Heaven and Earth grasshopper" because of the big size difference between the males and females like "Heaven and Earth." Acrida cinerea males are typically 4 to 5 cm (1.6 to 2.0 inch) long while the females are 7 to 8 cm (2.8 to 3.1 inch).

Acrida cinerea 精霊蝗虫

Dear Bugs! Ant, Grasshopper, Horsefly, Ladybug and Others! 働き虫と怠け虫

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I'm not interested in insects so much, but these days, I often see ants, bees, flies, ladybug and other bugs on and inside flowers. This made me think of what they are doing there. Of course they are busy collecting their food or just resting...

Striped shield bug アカスジカメムシ

Orange and black stripes are beautiful!
オレンジと黒の縞々がきれい！

Japanese weigela and horsefly 箱根空木とアブ

Japanese weigela and horsefly 箱根空木とアブ

Grasshopper? バッタ？

Korean rose buds 木槿

A drone beetle resting on Japanese weigela leaf
箱根空木の葉で一休み？

A drone beetle resting on bushkiller
ヤブガラシの上のカナブン

Can you see them? 見えますか？

We're busy in the morning 朝は忙しいの！

Yellow flower 花の名前は分かりません｡｡｡

Rose glory bower 牡丹臭木（ボタンクサギ）

Ants on rose of Sharon's bud 
木槿のつぼみで忙しい

Korean rose 芙蓉

Crepe myrtle サルスベリ

Another Japanese weigela - ant and horsefly 
箱根空木 アリとアブ？

Two ladybugs on crepe myrtle seeds
サルスベリの実とテントウムシ

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今回の主役は虫です。最近よく見かけます。箱根空木の葉や百日紅の実で休憩しているカナブン君やテントウムシ君以外は、みんな朝早くから食料集めに忙しそうです😊

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Baby Longheaded Locust on Red Zinnia 赤ちゃんバッタと百日草

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

This bright garnet red stopped me, and then a tiny green thing caught my eye!!

Baby Oriental longheaded locust on zinnia
赤ちゃんショウリョウバッタ、一休み

Are you gonna jump? 飛ぶ？

Red zinnia is so red! 真っ赤な百日草

It was a baby Oriental longheaded locust (I think!) and the flower red zinnia. The baby is so tiny, sitting still on a zinnia petal, looking like being poised to leap...

Babies are all cute, a bug, human, cat or dog, and this tiny baby locust reminded me of a white Frenchie puppy I saw several days earlier. The Frenchie puppy, taking a sniff of pink flowers on the roadside, was so adorable until he/she started peeing on those flowers. Having never had a pet, I couldn't understand why he or she had done that, so I told my husband about it. He said, "Frenchies are just stupid, but that's what makes them so cute. I love them!"

WHAT???? Are you saying I am stupid or you don't love me? But I, too, think Frenchies are stupid but love them. Don't ask why..... 

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「真っ赤だな」と見ていたらちっちゃいの発見！ショウリョウバッタの赤ちゃん（多分）です。飛ぶかと思ってしばらく眺めていましたが全然動かない。でも赤ちゃんは可愛いです。

赤ちゃんと言えば先日見かけた赤ちゃんフレブル。ピンクの花をクンクンしていて愛らしい！と思ったら急におしっこタイム！しかもついさっきまでクンクンしていたその花に！

お～い、どうしてだ？！（ペット飼ったことがありません🙇）家で主人に話したら、「フレブルはバカだからかわいいんだよ、だから好きなんだ」

お～い、どういうことだ？ 私はバカ？ それとも私のこと好きじゃない？ いずれにせよ私もフレブル大好きです。

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