Rare Bright Pink Grasshopper Discovered in Texas Backyard
(World News Science)

Texas resident Allison Barger had an extremely rare visitor come to her garden in Austin last week-a bright pink grasshopper. The striking critter was discovered by her 3-year-old son, Brooks, on Sunday. Barger then sent a photo of the rose-hued hopper to local news station KXAN. Roeselien Raimond, a nature photographer and HuffPost contributor, has previously called the bugs the `closest thing to a pink elephant` and said `spotting one is like `looking for a needle in a haystack.` While unusual, Barger`s pink visitor is not unique-similarly colorful incarnations of grasshopper have been found in a Wiltshire farm in the U.K., the Belfast hills also in the U.K., and Gunma...