Monday, February 22, 2010

The Pink Grasshopper

Sounds like a euphemism for a sexual act/organ, but it's not. A boy in Santa Fe, Texas, found a grasshopper with a strange pink coloration due to genetic variations:


The young man is a keen amateur entomologist, and sent the pink grasshopper to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. They'll try to breed it to produce more pink grasshoppers.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

S'kinda cute. I wonder if it'd make good fish bait.

Gerry N.