This beautiful lime green beetle with purple legs (imagine this being real!) It is a Beyer's Leaf Chafer Beetle (Chrysina beyeri), which feeds on oaks in the mountains of Southeast Arizona. This one was photographed in Madera Canyon, Arizona, and was apparently "chafing" the leaves here, whatever that means :-)
Plains Lubber ~ This large grasshopper-type insect was about three inches long, and was crossing the road in Montosa Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains in Southeast Arizona.
~ These two large grasshopper-type insects occur in large numbers in some areas of Southeast Arizona during the monsoon season in summer. The one on the left is a Plains Lubber, and right one is a Horse Lubber. Very strange names for very strange insects. I had never seen these before--they are quite amazing.
