Grasshoppers

[Earthlink]

Grasshoppers: where are they?

[pyrangello]

There all here in Michigan , they started about 2 weeks ago, big, small, stick bugs, you name it loaded big time everywhere.

[shadowstalker]

Springtown texas is chuck full of them, it's like watching a plague when mowing

[Joanne Shepard]

You mean Leaf hoppers?

[PurpleLama]

They are in my garden in south Mississippi. You can have some of mine.

[Robin]

Are you talking about the insect....

or

the metaphorical grasshopper "student".

If you're talking about there being a lack of open-minded students who seek out spiritual oneness by listening to their neighbors who act as mentors, while they devote their time in understanding the Truth through humility and perseverance, then yes, I would agree that there are a lack of "grasshoppers" in this world.

[Earthlink]

The insect.

And, as I'm an apostle to the sciences, I can not just accept what you say if you offer no evidence.

It would be easy for you, then, to get a local newspaper or other piece of existing literature that has todays date on it, put a grasshopper on it, near where the date is, and take a picture. How about instead of telling me that you have them, you just go take a current picture of one?

[Earth Angel]

Earthlink.....I'm in small town Ontario too and they are all over the place!

[Earthlink]

Normally, yes, they are. I shouldn't have to go looking for them outside, normally, they would end up on my newspaper if I was reading it outside.

Normally.

[PurpleLama]

I squashed several this morning, but I neglected to take photographs.

Would you like to divulge the purpose of this thread? Perhaps then I might see fit to go to the trouble of taking a picture of a grasshopper or two.

[Earthlink]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
I squashed several this morning, but I neglected to take photographs.

Would you like to divulge the purpose of this thread? Perhaps then I might see fit to go to the trouble of taking a picture of a grasshopper or two.

Well, PurpleLama, I don't have any here. Nor do any of several other colleagues of mine have any where they are either. Normally, according to the scientific method, that would warrant some investigation. Normally. However, Normally has left the building and has been replaced by ... replaced by ... I don't even know any more what Normally has been replaced by, since opinions and assertions can not be photographed, so, I guess I'll just leave it at that.

Casting a wider net is, though, a good idea. Where else are these not normal conditions present?

Is it just something in my town, or several towns, or is it everywhere?

These questions are valid.

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And since I know where they are not, I thought I'd ask as to where they are.

[PurpleLama]

Perhaps your paucity of grasshoppers involves the especially cold winter you've just had.

[Earthlink]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Perhaps your paucity of grasshoppers involves the especially cold winter you've just had.

That's a thought. I discarded it though, because also a thought is that Grasshoppers are millions of years old now, and, Canada has had winters every year now for at least the last 60 million years, regular just like annual clockwork, so, I don't know that anything different and unusual has occurred.

Are you suggesting that we just had a once in at least 60 million year event?

[Atlas]

Got one ! Filmed at Webster's Falls - Dundas, Ontario
August 18, 2014

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DFhk7OA1c2Q

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by Earthlink (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Perhaps your paucity of grasshoppers involves the especially cold winter you've just had.

That's a thought. I discarded it though, because also a thought is that Grasshoppers are millions of years old now, and, Canada has had winters every year now for at least the last 60 million years, regular just like annual clockwork, so, I don't know that anything different and unusual has occurred.

Are you suggesting that we just had a once in at least 60 million year event?

Do you have photographic evidence your small town has had the same level of grasshoppers for 60 million years?



On a more serious note, I don't see near as many grasshoppers as I did when I was a kid. But then again, I'm not out playing in the grass or on the ground as much anymore either ... But there's still some grasshoppers around.

Edit: Buares just solved the mystery! Giant orb weavers!

[Earthlink]

Posted by DeDukshyn (here)

Posted by Earthlink (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Perhaps your paucity of grasshoppers involves the especially cold winter you've just had.

That's a thought. I discarded it though, because also a thought is that Grasshoppers are millions of years old now, and, Canada has had winters every year now for at least the last 60 million years, regular just like annual clockwork, so, I don't know that anything different and unusual has occurred.

Are you suggesting that we just had a once in at least 60 million year event?

Do you have photographic evidence your small town has had the same level of grasshoppers for 60 million years?



On a more serious note, I don't see near as many grasshoppers as I did when I was a kid. But then again, I'm not out playing in the grass or on the ground as much anymore either ... But there's still some grasshoppers around.

Edit: Buares just solved the mystery! Giant orb weavers!

The fact that Grasshoppers used to be here was proof that they, or their immediate ancestors, were here, all this time.

And, one Grasshopper looking insect somewhere does not explain their absence in many other places. Also, there isn't a newspaper with the year 2014 in that video. I have no idea where and when that video was taken, other than the spoken word of one, but again, it does nothing to explain their absence in so many other locations.

[PurpleLama]

Conversely, we have no proof that there are no grasshoppers where you live. Are you all set to start taking pictures of no grasshoppers with newspapers in order to prove there are none?

[RunningDeer]

One entered my space yesterday while out for a walk. The automatic body response was an unexpected graceful step aside, while she continued to fly past in her purple and yellow finest.

I thanked the little critter for confirmation of what I’m experiencing in real time these days.

"Grasshopper, Locust Power Animal, Symbol of Leaping Forward" 

by: Ina Woolcott

"

Grasshoppers/Locusts medicine includes jumping across space and time, astral travel, new leaps forward/leaps of faith/jumping without knowing where you will land, leaping over obstacles, ability to change careers quickly. "

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RunningDeer <3

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

[Earth Angel]

you guys are funny.....I have seen them here but then I think mostly what I am seeing is crickets......so perhaps you are right there is a lack of grasshoppers this year....I don't normally have them hopping on me ......I wonder are they cyclical....i recall moving to this small ontario town 17 years ago and walking through the parks with my kids and grass hoppers were EVERYWHERE.....but haven't seen that kind of population since then.

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by Earth Angel (here)
you guys are funny.....I have seen them here but then I think mostly what I am seeing is crickets......so perhaps you are right there is a lack of grasshoppers this year....I don't normally have them hopping on me ......I wonder are they cyclical....i recall moving to this small ontario town 17 years ago and walking through the parks with my kids and grass hoppers were EVERYWHERE.....but haven't seen that kind of population since then.

They do seem to be cyclical in populations. I was noticing about 5 years ago that they all seemed to have "disappeared" (I live in the prairies so there should be lots), but then the next year there was lots around.

I do imagine though that all the new formulas of insecticides recently engineered are doing a good job of taking them out, if the bees are getting taken out then no doubt grasshoppers -- one of the intended targets, are also being affected.