I could have seen this coming, if I had known how tasty a closed hibiscus bud could be to a grasshopper.

I turned away for a few minutes after taking the photos in my post Green Grasshopper, Foreshadowing, with him on a leaf.  and when my attention returned to him he had moved.

And found lunch.

The closed bud was pretty dense and he was working hard to gnaw the top off.

I didn’t know it at the time I, but this image foreshadowed the grasshopper’s intentions.

Hibiscus for lunch!