Here’s a color picture taken by Gary Roemer, a wildlife ecologist, in the foothills of the Organ Mountains, outside Las Cruces, New Mexico. Can you spot the locust? (Locusts are grasshoppers.) I would rate this “pretty damn hard.”
The reveal will be at 11 a.m. Chicago time. If you spot it (click photo to enlarge it), just say you found it in the comments, but please don’t give clues for other people. Enjoy!
Pretty damn hard indeed!
That was indeed a hard one.
Insanely hard!
Got it. But it was challenging.
Spot the locus of what?
Sorry, if it doesn’t move, it doesn’t exist. That works for some predators, I’m told. (Which is to say I didn’t get it and time’s up anyway.)
My apologies for the poor image quality; I need a new cell phone. Also, my colleague, Dr. Scott Bundy, entomologist at NMSU, thought the culprit was most likely the pallid-winged grasshopper.