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Whoa! Two pink grasshoppers found in Louisiana within a week

Whoa! Two pink grasshoppers found in Louisiana within a week
DISCOVERY MADE OVER THE WEEKEND. YEAH. LOUISIANA WOMAN WAS SHOCKED WHEN SHE STUMBLED UPON WHAT SHE THOUGHT WAS A PINK GRASSHOPPER. YEAH, BUT IT WASN’T A GRASSHOPPER. IT’S CALLED A PINK KATYDID, MARY POUPON FOUND THE KATYDID WHILE SHE SAW THIS MOWING HER LAWN IN THIBODAUX. YEAH. TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. SHE CAPTURED IT AND TOOK IT TO THE AUDUBON INSECT TEAM. WE ACTUALLY, WHEN I WAS A KID, WE HAD GIVEN A SNAKE TO THE ZOO AND IT WAS REALLY COOL FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK AND, YOU KNOW, SEE THAT WE HAD GIVEN THE SNAKE. AND FOR US AS KIDS, AS AN EXPERIENCE. SO FOR MY KIDS, IT WAS AWESOME TO BE ABLE TO BRING THE KATYDID HERE. WE NAMED THE KATYDID JULES AND SO WE’RE JUST EXCITED THAT IT HAS A LITTLE FAMILY TO GO TO. NOW, THIS PARTICULAR KATIE DID THE OBLONG WINGED KATYDID HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN TO PRODUCE AN DIFFERENT COLORS. WEIRD, STRANGE AND NOT COMMON ONES. NOT JUST PINK, PEACH, YELLOW, SOMETIMES LIGHT TAN, SOMETIMES GRAY. SO NOT MANY PEOPLE FIND THEM AND NO ONE REALLY KNOWS GENETICALLY WHY THIS HAPPENS. COMING UP ALL NEW AT TEN, WHY THIS PINK KATYDID WON’T BE
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Whoa! Two pink grasshoppers found in Louisiana within a week
Two pink grasshoppers were found in Louisiana recently. Last weekend, Mary Vesich Phuphanich found a pink grasshopper in her yard in Thibodaux. A second pink grasshopper was donated to the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans on Tuesday.Hazel and Stephen Lewis of Hahnville donated the grasshopper after reaching out to sister station WDSU, saying they had also found one. Finding a pink grasshopper is quite rare.According to officials with the Audubon Insectarium, the reason pink grasshoppers are hard to find is because their color makes them a target to prey. According to a report out of Kansas, only two others have been recorded in the United States. Phuphanich captured the grasshopper and took it to live at the Audubon Insectarium.Officials with the Audubon Insectarium plan to put the grasshopper on display for the public to view.

Two pink grasshoppers were found in Louisiana recently.

Last weekend, Mary Vesich Phuphanich found a pink grasshopper in her yard in Thibodaux.

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A second pink grasshopper was donated to the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans on Tuesday.

Hazel and Stephen Lewis of Hahnville donated the grasshopper after reaching out to sister station WDSU, saying they had also found one.

Finding a pink grasshopper is quite rare.

According to officials with the Audubon Insectarium, the reason pink grasshoppers are hard to find is because their color makes them a target to prey.

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Pink grasshopper

According to a report out of Kansas, only two others have been recorded in the United States.

Phuphanich captured the grasshopper and took it to live at the Audubon Insectarium.

Officials with the Audubon Insectarium plan to put the grasshopper on display for the public to view.