There’s something on my knee…… Giant False Leaf Katydid (Pseudophyllus titan, Pseudophy

There’s something on my knee…… Giant False Leaf Katydid (Pseudophyllus titan, Pseudophyllinae, Tettigoniidae) If you have ever travelled or lived in China, you quickly observe that crowds form at the drop of a hat, whether it be to watch a game of chequers, minor domestic arguments, traffic accidents…and for foreigners. This happens in the big cities as much as it does in the more remote provinces, but when you are one of just a handful of 外国人(foreigners) in a third- or fourth-tier Chinese city and you are wielding a big camera with a flash diffuser AND you have China’s largest Orthopteran, P.titan (which very few Chinese people would be even aware exists), performing a threat display on your knee in the local park, the exponentially growing band of onlookers stands and stares in silent and, I will admit, unsettling curiosity. So picture, if you will, the unseen scene in this image. I politely indicated that the crowd move aside so that I didn’t have them in the background of this shot. Behind and to the sides of me however, is a throng maybe two or three deep slowly creeping closer and closer as new arrivals at the rear of the pack push and strain to see what the commotion is. I should have put my hat on the ground and collected some change….. See more images of Pseudophyllus titan in my Flickr photostream HERE. by itchydogimages on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more images from China on my Flickr site HERE….. -- source link

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