Koppie Foam Grasshopper

Red, Blue Found in Green Grass - Dictyophorus spumans

Knight is red/blue armour to charm? Found out his main defence is in foaming a toxic secretion to put would be predators off, perhaps a baboon would be tempted eating something like this, notably red colour normally warning signaling imminent danger.

Dictyophorus spumans, the koppie foam grasshopper or rooibaadjie, is a species of grasshopper in the family Pyrgomorphidae indigenous to Africa. The name "foaming grasshopper" derives from the insect's ability to produce a toxic foam from its thoracic glands. It is closely related to Phymateus.

It grows up to a length of 80 millimetres (3.1 in). The neck shield has a warty surface, and their color is highly variable. It is toxic due to the poisons that it sequesters from its diet, which includes a large number of toxic and distasteful plants such as milkweed. [Source]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyophorus_spumans)

Canon PowerShot SX730 HS f/8 1/40 sec ISO-80

Distinctive Blue head with double red collar giving a distinguished look, wings still out having just landed, rustic apparel, upper thigh legs blue with contrasting red/black below, most birds seeing the red would automatically give this wide berth avoiding danger.

Canon PowerShot SX730 HS f/8 1/30 sec ISO-80

Hidden between tufts of grass not always easy to see them, they tend to enjoy being close to the river since that is where I sighted both the Koppie Foam Grasshoppers, something completely different to what I was looking for.

Thought for Today: A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow. ~ Lesotho proverb