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- Pygmy Grasshoppers prefer wet habitat. They may be found along
watercourses, sit on mud and amongst stones along creeks. Some of them were
found on rainforest floor. They feed on algae and vegetation.
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- Creek Pygmy Grasshopper
 - ? Paratettix sp., body length 10mm
- You may not see any insect in this picture. But if you watch it carefully,
you should see a grasshopper in the middle. We took this picture on
the water edge of a small pond at Bulimba Creek. This small fellow mimic the
wet sand and stone on the creek bank. Its hind legs are with green colour of
algae. Its thorax and forewings resemble the rocks. Sometimes it jumps onto
the water, it then flow back to the bank.
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- Forest Pygmy Grasshopper
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- ? Tetrix sp., body length 12mm
- Pictures were taken in Ford Road Conservation Area on Jan
2009.
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- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper
Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz,
UNSW Press, 1996, p195.
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