grasshopper: Quick Facts

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A yellow and green grasshopper perched on a green leaf, surrounded by blades of grass and other foliage.

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

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.

Diagram of a grasshopper showing its nervous system, including labeled parts such as the protocerebrum, deutocerebrum, subesophageal ganglion, thoracic ganglia, ventral nerve cord, and stomatogastric system, with nerves highlighted in yellow.

Diagram comparing the nervous systems of a flatworm (Planaria) and a grasshopper, showing labeled nerve cords, nerve clusters, and nerves in both organisms, with the brain indicated in each.

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.

Study a grasshopper feeding on a leaf and learn how fast a grasshopper cloud can consume a farmer's crops

Follow a female grasshopper as its eggs are fertilized, buried underground, and hatched

Witness a grasshopper molting as it sheds its outgrown exoskeleton

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