grasshopper

     

Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects of the suborer Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish them from bush crickets or katydids, they are sometimes referred to as short-horned grasshoppers. Species that change color and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts.

Trivia about grasshopper

  • Aesop could tell you this insect was hopping & singing instead of "toiling & moiling" like those workaholic ants
  • The katydid is also called the long-horned (meaning long-antennaed) one of these
  • Watch it "snatch the pebble from my hand":
  • The smallest of these insects is the pygmy locust at less than 1/2 inch in length
  • You certainly come up short if you're "knee-high to" this insect or creme de menthe cocktail
  • The katydid is also called the long-horned this
  • The Mormon cricket is a long-horned type of this jumper
  • The term "locust" commonly refers to the short-horned variety of this insect
  • An ant shares the billing with one of these insects in the title of an Aesop fable
  • Take a flying leap & name this type of reconnaissance plane or insect of the family Acrididae
  • Leaping insects! This pie is actually made with creme de menthe, not with the bug in its name
  • The cone-headed type of this is related to the katydid
  • "SH" doesn't sound as usual in this insect that can leap 20 times its length

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