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KK Ng
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: Hoppy |
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Hoppy ( photo / image / picture from KK Ng's Garden )
This is Hoppy the resident pest and it has been around for quite awhile. Its favourite is kale. 
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Is this a typical insect in Malaysia? Although it has attractive colour, I wouldn't like to have that fellow visiting my veg or flower patches. He looks like an eating machine. 
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What a great photograph but I hope it hasn't brought al its relatives to your area. 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Hoppy is a very exotic looking fellow or gal.
It's relatives here that I have seen are all just shades of brown and gray, nothing pretty.
Hope it's on a diet and doesn't eat too much of your veggies.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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We have all colors here but I sure wouldn't make a pet of them They destroy all of my Hibiscus this year and anything in their reach. Grasshoppers are never welcome in my yard.
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KK Ng
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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I have no idea whether it is a native or not Sojerd and I think it is more like a locust!!!
Thanks Eileen, luckily it is working alone … 
No toni it is not on a diet, luckily there is enough veggies for the both us …. Hehe!!!
I had tried to chase it away couple of times Glendann but it just keep on coming back and the birds dare not eat it.
Well I have almost harvested all my leafy veggies and hope that Hoppy will go away soon.
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You make me feel like a big meanie I had a heck of a time with them this summer. They were eating my poor hollyhocks so I would step on them or cut them in half with my clippers  Wow! can't believe I confessed that.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I can statsmom.I had thousands of them.They sure make great fish bait. I guess I'm a meanie too.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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LOL EJ
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KK Ng
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Well if there were more of them and is a pain in the you know where I will just do the same At the moment the birds are doing a great job picking out the normal kind of grasshoppers. Sometimes I am a meanie too!!
Incidentally it had left 
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:)All jokes aside that is a great photo and I've never seen a grasshopper that color.Its amazing you can get that close to him.
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That's what I was thinking too Glenda -- I like looking at grasshopper-ish things but they always jump away if I get close. I like this pic. I can't say I've had any grasshoppers that were a problem (knock on wood) so I guess I can still like them!
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the stripes are what i've never seen before...
a couple years ago i brought in some plants from outside and washed them all and put them in our loft under a light. within a couple weeks there were all these timy 'bugs' all over them. hubby finally guessed they were grasshopper babies! what a shock!
are you sure it's a 'him'???!
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It's big! And lovely too, as long as there's only one. 
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