Look at Those Mouthparts! Grasshopper Chows Down

I hope you can see some cool critters today :) I always see lots of grasshoppers here over the summer and some plants here and there get munched, but there is enough vegetation that the impact is not usually notable. This year there were a lot of them in my main Comfrey (Symphytum) patch- man they were really chomping the heck out of those plants! It still wasn't a big deal, since those plants are huge and vigorous and I have to chop them back majorly anyway (several times, or here and there continuously). Sometimes the grasshoppers are pretty placid and don't move much when I come near- this one on Aug 06 was too busy chowing down to worry about me- I even had the tripod set up and got quite close. Music excerpt: Marty Gots a Plan by Kevin MacLeod