Dining in House- Alyurr - the Mardi Gras Grasshopper


 A photo of this picky eater, Petasida ephippigera, or Alyurr of Arnhemland, who eats and lives on one plant Pityrodia, arrived from a friend , who knew how charmed I would be with this grasshopper. To properly consider its form I drew it in ink, adding water colour and pencil but the colours are drabber than the real thing. Long may the Alyurr grasshopper dine and hop. 

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