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The area I found this grasshopper was Canyon Country, California, USA In a desert/field area. I have been reading up on grasshoppers because I recently came into possession of a pink grasshopper (I believe it to be the common meadow hopper. Sorry if I don't have any more specifics, but I posted the pic on two well known sites and both have not ID'd it yet). One of the pages that I've read covers the eating of toxic plants by them and how they change to bright colors to warn that they are toxic after eating poisons. Is this true? Could that explain the coloring of this grasshopper, or is it due to a recessive gene, or even erythrism? I'm trying to breed it, so any and all info on how to treat this little guy, history of the coloring if its genes, and the color changing toxic effect would be much appreciated. Here's a picture since it hasn't been ID'd formally yet.

The area I found this grasshopper was Canyon Country, California, USA In a desert/field area. I have been reading up on grasshoppers because I recently came into possession of a pink grasshopper (It was identified below as the common meadow hopper Chorthippus parallelus). One of the pages that I've read covers the eating of toxic plants by grasshoppers and how they change to bright colors to warn that they are toxic after eating poisons. Is this true? Could that explain the coloring of this grasshopper, or is it due to a recessive gene, or even erythrism? I'm trying to breed it, so any and all info on how to treat this little guy, history of the coloring if its genes, and the color changing toxic effect would be much appreciated. Here's a picture. 

I have been reading up on grasshoppers because I recently came into possession of a pink grasshopper (I believe it to be the common meadow hopper. Sorry if I don't have any more specifics, but I posted the pic on two well known sites and both have not ID'd it yet). One of the pages that I've read covers the eating of toxic plants by them and how they change to bright colors to warn that they are toxic after eating poisons. Is this true? Could that explain the coloring of this grasshopper, or is it due to a recessive gene, or even erythrism? I'm trying to breed it, so any and all info on how to treat this little guy, history of the coloring if its genes, and the color changing toxic effect would be much appreciated. Here's a picture since it hasn't been ID'd formally yet.

The area I found this grasshopper was Canyon Country, California, USA In a desert/field area. I have been reading up on grasshoppers because I recently came into possession of a pink grasshopper (I believe it to be the common meadow hopper. Sorry if I don't have any more specifics, but I posted the pic on two well known sites and both have not ID'd it yet). One of the pages that I've read covers the eating of toxic plants by them and how they change to bright colors to warn that they are toxic after eating poisons. Is this true? Could that explain the coloring of this grasshopper, or is it due to a recessive gene, or even erythrism? I'm trying to breed it, so any and all info on how to treat this little guy, history of the coloring if its genes, and the color changing toxic effect would be much appreciated. Here's a picture since it hasn't been ID'd formally yet.

I have been reading up on grasshoppers because I recently came into possession of a pink grasshopper. One of the pages that I've read covers the eating of toxic plants by them and how they change to bright colors to warn that they are toxic after eating poisons. Is this true? Could that explain the coloring of this grasshopper, or is it due to a recessive gene, or even erythrism? I'm trying to breed it, so any and all info on how to treat this little guy, history of the coloring if its genes, and the color changing toxic effect would be much appreciated.

I have been reading up on grasshoppers because I recently came into possession of a pink grasshopper (I believe it to be the common meadow hopper. Sorry if I don't have any more specifics, but I posted the pic on two well known sites and both have not ID'd it yet). One of the pages that I've read covers the eating of toxic plants by them and how they change to bright colors to warn that they are toxic after eating poisons. Is this true? Could that explain the coloring of this grasshopper, or is it due to a recessive gene, or even erythrism? I'm trying to breed it, so any and all info on how to treat this little guy, history of the coloring if its genes, and the color changing toxic effect would be much appreciated. Here's a picture since it hasn't been ID'd formally yet.