2014 $1 Bright Bugs Leichhardt's Grasshopper Coloured Frosted Uncirculated Coin. The Leichhardt's Grasshopper is one of Australia's most spectacular grasshoppers. They are found in the Northern Territory where shrubs of the genus Pityrodia grow. The grasshoppers are very fond of eating the Pityrodia plant that they will remain on a single shrub for life. The grasshopper's indigenous name is Alyurr, which means children of the lightning man Namarrgon, who are called to bring on the monsoon at the end of the dry season. Mintage 30,000.
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