Скачать или смотреть Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper

A male speckle-winged rangeland grasshopper (Arphia conspersa) flashes his hind legs displaying the contrasting banding pattern on the inside of his femora. This may have produced a stridulatory sound, but neither my ears nor the camera microphone picked it up - it may also have just been silent femur tipping. The buzzing/crackling sounds you can hear in the background are the crepitation flights of other Arphia (mostly males). Crepitation is when the hind wings snap together during flight. Unfortunately I couldn't catch any of these flights to show the brightly coloured yellow or reddish/pink hind wings that are visible during these display flights.