These rare pink insects are hiding among the foliage at Ojibway Park [View all]

One Windsorite has a knack for spotting the rare, beautiful bugs

It's a rare sighting: A small oblong insect coloured a bright Barbie pink.

It's a pink katydid, a grasshopper-like insect with a recessive gene that turns them from their usual pale green to bright pink.

Geoff Pekor is an insect enthusiast who makes a hobby out of looking for these, and other unusual insects at Ojibway Park. He recently spotted a pink katydid — but it's not the first one he's found.

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"If anybody knows anything about pink katydids, they are not common," Pekor said. "They say it's about one in 500, give or take, but that's how it started with me, was just finding a couple at night and then I kept going and I kept finding them.

"It was very unusual… most people only might see one their whole life, and I was able to see a whole bunch."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/ojibway-park-pink-katydids-1.7279837

Beautiful photos in the article.