I rarely see grasshoppers in my yard anymore, and this bothers me. What a delight to find this largish specimen, possibly the offspring of last season’s pairs that lived in my backyard. It is another class of insects that appear to me to be in far lesser numbers than years past, although this is a subjective observation of mine. What’s going on in addition to pesticide usage? I read Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ in the late ‘60’s, while still a boy, and she foretold what we have an ominous taste of these days.