An extreme close-up of a tiny grasshopper with pale, translucent carapace, big black eyes, and short, segmented antennae. It is so small that a dozen grains of sand underneath it appear very large in the frame.

This adorable and fascinating little pygmy mole grasshopper, Neotridactylus apicialis, has established a tiny population on a small Okanagan beach.

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