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A soccer ball with tiny grasshoppers.

Some grasshoppers use bright colors as a form of camouflage, helping them to blend in with their surroundings or mimic other animals in order to avoid detection. The bright colors on grasshoppers are an important adaptation that helps these insects survive and thrive in their environments.

Just a theory, but it can also be that these grasshoppers think that this giant green soccer ball is their parent so they get attracted to it.

Someone accidentally found a pink grasshopper while mowing their lawn. Pink grasshoppers are usually native to Europe and Asia so to see one in the States is an extremely rare chance of only 1%