Thanks Harlem, I like to try my hands at everything that I can.
Arvin, Thank you too!
That bowl is about 18" across, and I used a mix of 1 part peat to 1 part perlite, with a thin top dressing of sphagnum, to prevent the peat from splashing all over the plants when it rains.
The grasshopperas around here are two inches long - or just big in general.
Right now I have....'imprisoned' the insect, so I can get some pics, and just because it's so colorful. It would make an excellent display in my future "Large Bugs of New Mexico" entomology collection.