For a minute, I thought this was the “Beginning of the End!”
Nah, it was just a larger differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis).

For a minute, I thought this was the “Beginning of the End!”
Nah, it was just a larger differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis).

That sounds like a 70-pound cricket, hopped up on steroids, with cybernetic enhancements that electronically distort its voice.
That is NOT one of God’s creatures.
Why must you harbor such strange fauna, Roanoke?
I gotta get audio of this.
[Update: Internet user Jen M. helpfully provided me with the below image to assuage my apprehension. (Thanks, Jen.) Some trivia — Jen tells me that’s actually a still from “The Beginning of the End,” the film that MST3K expertly lampoons with Crow’s Peter Graves impression.]
