so there I was, descending on the hollyhock determined to take a definitive picture of a weevil, and this delightful - er - insect - jumped up in front of me. But what eyes! What is it? I thought at first it might be a cicada - but cicadas have five eyes (who knew? Two complex, three simple)! It might be a grasshopper ... there are, after all, 160 varieties of grasshopper in New Mexico. But most grasshopper eyes are round. The only insect I can find that it looks like, eye-wise, is a citrus locust nymph. But what would such a locust be doing here? It hopped off into the grass, on its long legs, before I could take another picture of it. But the big question: what kind of vision could it possibly have?
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