Early this morning when I came home from the night shift, I saw three different types of grasshoppers on the wall of the house.
I managed to photograph two, but one large dark brown one escaped when I got a bit closer.
I haven't seen these types around here before, so I googled a bit and found that the green one with orange eyes is an Egyptian grasshopper.
It can be found in America and third-world countries, far from us, but it can come to other countries through food and other factors, just like the other small brown one, which I don't actually know where it's from because it says various things, from Florida to Australia, so I'm not really sure.
Anyway, some find them ugly and pesky, and some are even afraid of them, but I find them fascinating, especially the large brown ones, which are very common around the floodlights at work where I work, and they fly around, so sometimes I think it's a bat, not a grasshopper, because they are about 9-12 cm in size.
Until this year, we had cockroach infestations every summer, but this year it has changed, probably due to climate change, so now we have an infestation of ground beetles.
They are similar to cockroaches but slower, have small pincers on the tips of their heads, and are very tough, which is probably a defense mechanism.
The pictures were taken with a Samsung A53 phone using the macro camera.
