Sphingonotus caerulans - Slender Blue-winged Grasshopper - Stridulation
29. Juli 2008 geschrieben von held.
The Slender Blue-winged Grasshopper populates warm and dry open spaces. It is adapted to it´s life on the ground very well. During the several ectysis of the larvae the color and texture of the Slender Blue-winged Grasshopper imitates the characteristics of it´s habitat to camouflage.
The acoustic behavior of this grashopper is not very distinct. So it was a delight to capture the behavior of two rivalling males fighting it out in a kind of tournament.
The videoclip is very short an the soundquality is not the best but the situation is worth to show.
