Check out these grasshopper facts.
Learn about the many different species of grasshopper, how far a grasshopper can jump, how locusts are a type of grasshopper and much more.
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Locusts are actually species of short-horned grasshoppers, they often gather in large swarms and can destroy entire fields of crops, because a single grasshopper can eat half its body weight in plants per day. In just the U.S. they cause about $1.5 billion in damage to grazing lands each year.
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There are around 11,000 known species of grasshopper found around the world, often inhabiting grassy fields, meadow and forest areas.
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Grasshoppers have two antennae, 6 legs, two pairs of wings and small little pinchers to tear off food such as grasses, leaves and cereal crops.
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Some species of grasshopper species make noises by either rubbing their back legs against the forewings or body, or by snapping their wings when flying.
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Grasshoppers grow to around 2 inches (5 cm), with some growing as big as 5 inches (12.7cm). Female are usually larger than males.
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Grasshoppers are often colored in a way that camouflages them in their local habitat, green ones in grassy fields, sandy colored in dirt and desert areas.
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Grasshoppers can jump about 25cm high and around 1 meter long. If humans could jump as far as grasshoppers do, relative to size, then we could leap more than the length of a football field.
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The grasshopper can jump as far as it does because its hind legs act like miniature catapults. It bends its legs at the knee, mechanism within the knee works like a spring, storing up energy. When the grasshopper is ready to jump, it relaxes the leg muscles, allowing the spring to release flinging it into the air.
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Grasshoppers are commonly eaten in African, Central and South American countries, the insect is a very good source of protein.
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