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A yellow and green grasshopper perched on a green leaf, surrounded by blades of grass and other foliage.
Side-by-side comparison of a brown cricket on the left and a camouflaged grasshopper on the right, separated by a large white question mark.
Dead-leaf grasshopper (Chorotypus saussurei) camouflaged against a dry brown leaf, its body and wings closely resembling the texture and color of the leaf. An elegant grasshopper (Aonocerus elegans) with yellow, black, and red markings stands on a cluster of purple flowers against a blurred green background. Eastern lubber grasshoppers Grasshopper nymph and adult Meadow grasshopper pygmy grasshopper Acrididae: grasshopper Diagram showing auditory mechanisms in insects, including labeled illustrations of a scolophore organ, the mosquito ear with antenna shaft and scolophores, the cicada ear with auditory capsule and tympanic membrane, and the grasshopper ear with sensory body and tympanic membrane.
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A yellow and green grasshopper perched on a green leaf, surrounded by blades of grass and other foliage.
Grasshopper The grasshopper's green coloring makes it less conspicuous among the leaves. This type of protective coloration is called background matching.

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grasshopper, (suborder Caelifera), any of about 11,000 species of jumping insects of the order Orthoptera that are found in a variety of habitats. Grasshoppers occur in greatest numbers in lowland tropical forests, semiarid regions, and grasslands. Although most grasshoppers are herbivorous, only a few species are important economically as crop pests. Most species feed on a wide variety of plant species, though some are restricted to a single plant species or one group of plants....

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