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). (#20 of 100)