This grasshopper was about 5 inches long. It's a lubber grasshopper. I discovered him in my garden and thought, "wow, what a beautiful insect". And I took photos of him and let him stay in my garden. My mistake. After a couple of weeks he disappeared (or she, as it turned out). About a month later there were thousands of tiny grasshoppers (black with a yellow cross on their backs) all over my garden.

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