The strangest and rarest animals ...

Pink color is one of the beautiful colors, which gives a picture more than beautiful when used, so let alone find pink color in the animal world and in the large and most kingdom, 5 is the kingdom of  insects .

What is this animal?

The pink leafy grasshopper is the sweetest and rarest insect ever discovered in 1887, with a pink body and white eyes, making it easy for a predator to catch it easily. The adult stage of this type of insect reaches very few numbers. In origin the color of grasshoppers is either green or brown or a mixture between them, so their colors make them far from the eyes of their enemies, as for the pink color as a result of a genetic mutation called aire. This mutation increases the red pigment and reduces the natural pigment of locusts.

The grasshopper has very long antennae and is longer than its body and is characterized by strong legs and its four front legs are used to catch its prey as well as the latter helps it to walk. As for its back legs, it is also strong and used to jump.

Pink grasshopper can be dangerous to nature

Despite the beauty of grasshoppers, they pose a great danger to agricultural crops, so they destroy them, and this is due to their large number and spread. In the old days, they were striving to combat them. With the development of studies, farmers started using organic chloride to get rid of it, but it became clear that this poses harm to the environment, so it was prevented .. Now it has become very easy to eliminate it and does not pose a threat to the environment by spraying pesticides with airplanes, as soon as the insect touches those sprayed plants or chewing their leaves, they die.

The difference between locusts and grasshoppers 

There is great confusion in the distinction between locusts and grasshoppers. As the entomologist Alexander Vsevolo Lachinsky said in an article for "Animal Behavior" that locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts. Locusts are a type of grasshopper with small horns capable of forming swarms with the contribution of climatic conditions. This development may lead to a change in body shape, color and life span, but this does not prevent their speech posing a great danger to agricultural crops.