A rare pink grasshopper was found by a Texan in her garden.
Allison Barger took a photo of a pink grasshopper in southwest Austin, after it was spotted by her three-year-old son Brooks.
It turns out that there aren’t many pink grasshoppers around.
Why are they pink? It’s a genetic mutation, Victoria Hillman with National Geographic says.
Hillman says the mutation is called erythrism, and it’s caused by a recessive gene similar to the one that affects albino animals. It’s unusual and not very understood, she says, even though it was discovered in katydids in 1887. The mutation typically happens in the common meadow grasshopper, Hillman says.
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