Take some Poison – For your protection of course!

Locusts / grasshoppers of the order Phymateus eat poisonous plants like the milkweed and store the poisons in their bodies to deter their predators.

There are a number of species and subspecies with a variety of colours. This image is of theĀ  common milkweed locust (Phymateus morbillosus).

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Common Milkweed Locust (Phymateus morbillosus) at Witzenberg, Wolseley, South Africa.

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