I was concerned about him hopping away when my wife suggested the "fridge" trick to make him slow down. After reading some discussion on this forum about that in the past, I decided not to do that and just to risk it. Put him in our grass, lied down and snapped away. He was VERY cooperative. I took a bunch of pics, some of which I specifically tried to set up for helicon focus later. I'll try it out and post my result. In the mean time, here's my hopper in all his glory. This is about a 10% - 15% crop.

I know the lighting isn't the greatest. We had overcast skies and I don't have a macro flash or a remote flash. But hey, I'm happy as a hopper to get this pic.
Canon 300D | ISO 100 | 1/125s | F8 | 90mm Tamron AF Macro | Manual | Handheld