Grasshopper metamorphosis change caught on footage

Birdlife Malta took to social media to showcase a rather unusual sight which we very rarely get to see play out in real time.

The footage shows a grasshopper that has just changed from its nymph form to its adult insect form. The insect perfectly camouflaged itself with the surrounding greenery as it got ready to begin a new stage in its life.‘The old shell, or exoskeleton, can be seen discarded below the grasshopper’ the NGO explained in the caption.

‘From a distance, you would think there was a butterfly in the bush, but no, it is the grasshopper, pumping body fluids into its new wings to stretch them to full size.’

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