This morning as I was walking through the marsh area of Huntley Meadows Park, I happened to catch sight of this pair of grasshoppers. With any other kind of vegetation the grasshoppers would have been camouflaged, but that was certainly not the case against the backdrop of a cattail.
I was struck by the differentiation in color between the male and the female—it reminded me of my time in the Army, when there were different camouflage patterns for woodlands and for the desert.
Mating grasshoppers
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Mike Powell 
Love the colors!
ooh-la-la, your blog is becoming quite risque!!!! 8-o
Perhaps you should take up insect boudoir???
There’s quite a size difference in these insects too… just like your photo of the loving ladybugs.