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Green gryllus.

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Date

[Between 1816 and 1818]

Description

Three green grasshoppers on a pink and white convolvulus in flower and leaf. One grasshopper shown in flight. According to the artist's notes 'Feeds on the blossoms of the convolvulus panduratus ..." The text for the 1983 reproduction of this work reads: "The insect is one of the group of Long Horned Grasshoppers or Katydids. Widespread and common, they are well camouflaged on the plants on which they live. The cricket is shown here on Man-root (Ipomoea pandurata) ... a common perennial prostrate vine of dry woodlands and roadsides, fencerows and old fields of the United States. The large starch-filled root of the Man-root my weight five kilograms or more."

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Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Georgia, USA

Country

USA