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Like many 10-year-olds, Madeline Landecker is fascinated by insects. At her family’s small farm near Little Rock, she enjoys watching ants and ladybugs and using a net to capture butterflies.
Her friends in the fourth grade call her the “bug expert,” she said.
So when Madeline spotted a flash of bright pink on the ground after looking in on her chickens after school on March 14, she stooped down to get a closer look.
“I saw that it was something really special,” she said. “A pink grasshopper.”
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