[貼圖] 难得一见蚱蜢完美蜕壳

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著名印尼摄影师Adhi Prayoga日前在自家庭院里拍下了蚱蜢在蜕皮过程中留下完美的就外衣。他总共花了40分钟来完成这作品.

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In a rare but amazing show of nature this grasshopper has been caught  on camera shedding its old skin  - and leaving behind a perfect replica of  itself.
Carefully, but with determination and dexterity the insect took 40  minutes to cast off its hard outer shell - called an exoskeleton -  all  while hanging onto a piece of grass.
Photographer Adhi Prayoga, 41, watched the transformation in his back  garden in Mataram, Indonesia and caught the moment on camera.

Carefully, but with determination and dexterity, the insect wriggles out of  the shell
The salesman said: 'I observed the grasshopper as she started to turn  her head down as she clung to a 30 centimetre grass.
'Carefully, she moved her body to release the old skin and I was amazed  as she successfully separated from the intact shell.
'Then I saw some ants interested in the moulting process start to run  up the stem.


Grasshoppers and crickets are part of an insect order called the  Orthoptera, which also includes wetas and katydids.

There are about 10,000 different species of grasshoppers, with the  biggest growing to about 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) long.
In some countries, grasshoppers are boiled and fried and eaten as a  good source of protein.

The skin- shedding is one stage in the metamorphosis of  the grasshopper.

Eggs hatch into nymphs, which look like  little adults without wings  and reproductive organs.

Nymphs molt many  times as they grow to be adults.


'I was impressed by the insects’ ability to walk deftly up and down the  grass, and the ant took hold of the casing then dropped it.'
This is one stage of the grasshopper's metamorphosis.

Eggs hatch into nymphs, which look like  little adults without wings  and reproductive organs.

Nymphs molt many  times as they grow to be adults.
There are about 10,000 different species of grasshoppers, with the  biggest growing to about 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) long.
In certain countries, grasshoppers are eaten as a good source of  protein, particularly in southern Mexico, where the 'chapulines'  are regarded for their high content of minerals and vitamins.

While grasshoppers eat plants, their  predators include birds, beetles,  rodents, reptiles, and spiders. Some  flies also eat grasshopper eggs.