Speckled Bush-cricket macro (it’s not a grasshopper)

This little fellow somehow made it through the kitchen window.
I gently trapped it into a small carton box and placed it on some leaves in our garden, where it - to my surprise - sat down camly (and still is sitting as I’m writing this lines).
I won’t get another invitation very soon so i grapped my camera with my 90mm Macro lens and cranged up ISO to get some decent shutter speeds for handheld shooting during the early evening lighting.

So I think the task is to work out our little friend and make it stand out better from the leaves he’s sitting on.
I will share my proposal later and just provide the raw files and a quick jpg export with dt scene refered defaults as preview. In the meantime I’m curious: where are the experts for insect photography?! :wink:

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That looks like a Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima), which would make it a cricket (katydid for the americans) and not a grasshopper (long slender antenna vs stumpy short ones)

Nice shot!

I gave a quick try using dt 4.8 to the last one that seemed to me the easiest to deal with.
Nice shot!
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I’m an American more than 70 years old, and I’ve always called them crickets. I have heard of katydids for years, but it was just a few weeks ago that I learned what they are.

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This one is fun to play with - thanks! dt 4.8.1


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My fun with ART and GIMP

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To my taste, this one is the better pic:


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Thanks for pointing that out. I shall update the title accordingly

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Some tuning on my first version (maybe a little bit extreme):


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I think it may be a regional thing. Like you I’ve heard of katydids all my life but have never once heard the word actually used in reference to any insects in my area. What I’ve seen labeled as a katydid looks a little different from this critter. Maybe we just don’t have them in the deep south, only grasshoppers (green, larger) and crickets (dark brown, smaller).

Yes. I researched them because a woman who writes a blog about Appalachia was talking about listening to the katydids at night. She lives up in the mountains of western North Carolina. I had to find out what she was referring to.

Most of the articles I read were comparing katydids to cicadas. Those are distinctly different creatures, but it seems that many people confuse them. If you were ever at my home in the summer and heard the cicadas, you wouldn’t confuse them with anything! Thousands of them at once and they “sing” in waves. Crickets (katydids) are very pleasant in comparison.

Yep

A pleasure to process, I love macro


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Uli,
Without knowing the color of the jumper, your edit is my favorite.
(I wonder how this small guy can take off and fly with such long antennas.)

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Gave a quick try using Darktable 4.8.0. Nice shot !

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