非常罕见发粉色蚱蜢，出现在英国花园里

非常罕见发粉色蚱蜢，出现在英国花园里

A British woman recently came across a colorful and not commonly seen insect while gardening: A pink grasshopper.

最近，一位英国妇女在园艺时，遇到了一种色彩鲜艳但不常见的昆虫：一只粉红色的蚱蜢。

Kate Culley, 41, told SWNS she was helping in her grandmother’s garden in Gloucestershire — a county in southwest England — when she spotted the grasshopper. Though the vibrant insect was quick to hop away, Culley managed to capture a picture of it just before it did.

41岁的凯特·库利告诉媒体，当她发现这只蚱蜢时，她正在格洛斯特郡的祖母的花园里帮忙。尽管这只生机勃勃的昆虫很快就跳开了，但库利还是在它跳开之前拍下了这张照片。

“I was surprised — you don’t expect to see a pink grasshopper,” she told the news outlet, noting she was “lucky” to snap the photo in time.

“我很惊讶——从没想到会看到一只粉红色的蚱蜢，”她告诉新闻机构，并指出她很幸运能及时拍到这张照片。

“It was unusual, I’ve never seen one like that before,” she added.

她补充说：“太不寻常了，我以前从未见过。”

These pink creatures are likely a “rare morph of the common meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus,” according to a 2013 National Geographic blog post.

根据2013年国家地理博客的一篇文章，这些粉红色的生物很可能是“普通草甸蚱蜢的罕见变种”。

Pink grasshoppers — which “rarely” make it to adulthood because they are easily noticed by predators, per the blog — are likely pink because of a genetic mutation called erythrism. The mutation, according to National Geographic, is caused by a recessive gene “similar to that which affects albino animals.”

据博客报道，粉色蚱蜢“很少”活到成年，因为它们很容易被捕食者发现。粉红蚱蜢的粉红，很可能因为一种叫做红毛症的基因突变。根据《国家地理》的说法，这种突变是由一种“类似于影响白化动物”的隐性基因引起的。

In this case, however, the mutation results when the animal overproduces red pigments or underproduces dark pigments.

在这种情况下，当动物产生过多的红色色素或深色色素不足时，突变就会发生。

The blog noted seeing such an insect is “extremely rare.”

该博客指出，看到这种昆虫“极其罕见”。

In humans, erythrism may be responsible, at least in part, for red hair and freckles, according to the Huffington Post.

根据《赫芬顿邮报》，对于人类来说，红发和雀斑可能至少在一定程度上是由红毛症引起的。