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

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

Grasshoppers (family Acrididae) mating, laying eggs, and hatching.
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Transcript

NARRATOR: Grasshoppers reproduce in great numbers. As summer changes to autumn, male and female grasshoppers mate. Males fertilize the females, who will lay the eggs that will become next summer's grasshopper population.

Finding a suitable location in soft earth, the female drives its elongated abdomen into the ground to deposit a cluster of eggs. A single female may lay as many as 300 eggs in a season. The eggs are covered with a sticky substance that helps protect them as they lie dormant underground through the winter.

Then, with the coming of spring, young grasshoppers hatch from their eggs, shown here in time-lapse photography. The newly hatched young closely resemble adults, except that they do not yet have wings. As their development continues, they change little in structure—simply growing larger.
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