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Shelter vs. camouflage

It must be a tough choice: do you get out of the torrential rain or do you hide from your predators. No wonder this grasshopper was a little twitchy at me photographing him.

He'd gone for the shelter, perched upside-down under the latch of our front gate. But even there in the shade and with the help of the dark clouds above he couldn't hide his radiant green body.

(Previous grasshopper encounter was seven years ago.)