How To Use Grasshopper In A Sentence

Workers feed them daily a mix of flakes, worms, grasshoppers and freeze-dried shrimp.
The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.
Only butterflies, grasshoppers, mosquitoes and flies are netted there.
Sutton worked with grasshopper chromosomes, and it was in this paper that he showed that chromosomes occur in distinct pairs, which segregate at meiosis.

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A common plaything for Chinese children, the grasshopper is defamiliarized as ‘a six-legged monster, fresh-grass green, with saw-blade jaws, bulging eyes, and whips for eyebrows’.
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
There are lots of grasshoppers around here, but my hens patrol the garden perimeter fence and really reduce the numbers of insects in the garden.
She strained her ears, but all she heard was the chirping of the birds and the buzzing song of the grasshoppers. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Japanese write as a repetition of the syllables jun-ta; and the name junta is sometimes given to the grasshopper itself. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
The area supports a number of species locally threatened or at their biogeographic limits, including golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, prairie falcon Falco mexicanus, ferruginous hawk Buteo regalis, loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus, merlin Falco columbarius, Brewers sparrow Spizella breweri and grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum. Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada
Besides birds, crickets and grasshoppers were his favorite animals.
Families of busy mynahs chirruped, foraged for grasshoppers, and then trilled when they took wing as we approached.
By mid-summer, both grasshoppers and corn earworms can be heavy feeders on a variety of crops.
Now, in August, the shrill sound of grasshoppers rang out across the undulating flatland beyond Sand Creek.
The grasshoppers are a concern for ranchers as well as farmer. KUSA-TV -
“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.” Storyteller
A woodchat's prey is mainly insects, beetles, damsel flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, wasps and bees.
Other insects, such as cutworm and grasshoppers, are general agricultural pests world-wide.
All Answers from cooner wrote 25 weeks 23 hours ago crickets, grasshoppers, hellgramites, and where legal small bait fish like dace work great What are good baits for brook trouts besides worms?
This last haunts only the tops of trees in high beechen woods, and makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise, now and then, at short intervals, shivering a little with its wings when it sings; and is, I make no doubt now, the _regulus non cristatus_ of Ray, which he says "_cantat voce stridula locustae_. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, and butterflies are a major part of their summer diet which also includes mammals such as mice, voles, young squirrels and rabbits, and shrews.
It was up in an instant and capering after its prey like an aquatic grasshopper.
You poor thing, to have to be our spy and stand the shame of that grasshopper roomie ! WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
The katydid is a grasshopper shaped insect that lives nearly everywhere in the world. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
A woodchat's prey is mainly insects, beetles, damsel flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, wasps and bees.
The Sidmouth to Beer Coast SSSI supports the most westerly example of species-rich grassland in England and a diverse invertebrate fauna including the nationally scarce rufous grasshopper Gomphocerippus rufu. Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom
I just know that when my money and my capacity to earn have just about sputtered out, I will be hobbling on my lame grasshopper legs to Cooper, begging for a corner in his semi-detached utility room/laundry shed where I can lay me doon and die. The bums haven’t lost. | clusterflock
Eat your grasshoppers – bonbon bilobate, cert cerus. Archive 2008-08-01
There was not a breath of wind; the sunlight shone down on the bare hillside; the loud chirp of the grasshoppers was the only sound. The Hill of Dreams
Insects such as the red locust, crickets, grasshoppers, and flying ants are collected in season and either fried with salt to make popular snacks or dried for later use.
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
Within the past decade, two bush crickets, relatives of grasshoppers, have arrived on local grasslands.
The silence here in the campo is a rhythmic one, the grasshoppers and other nighttime singers chant some droned out lazy call for the dancing fireflies. Archive 2007-10-01
These reports of high grasshopper populations are coming later than normal, and most of the reports have been of numerous smaller hopper nymphs.
Within moments of entering the massive hallway I was separated from my grasshopper companion in a confusion of unfamiliar people and totally lost sight of him.
Insect life is increasing rapidly, encouraging birds such as snipe, curlew, grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, and whinchat.
Historically, the dynamics of grasshopper populations, especially nymphal mortality, have largely been attributed to variations in climate.
The other half shows a flat and grassless prairie, gnawed clean by a recent plague of grasshoppers.
the proverbial grasshopper
The parasitic Nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii) develops inside land-dwelling grasshoppers and crickets until the time comes for the worm to transform into an aquatic adult. Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives
Romalea microptera–eastern lubber grasshopper chewing on leaf of pond apple, Annona glabra, Loxahatchee, Florida. The Panda's Thumb: September 2009 Archives
I've had my share of disasters from grasshoppers, including having the bark on my young evergreen firs eaten when there was still lots of other forage.
These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields. Archive 2008-07-01
“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.” Storyteller
Grasshoppers require humane treatment when they are farmed, because if they are overcrowded or stressed, they cannibalise each other.
At midday, you can join the bugs for lunch, and sink your teeth into braaied mopane worms, grasshoppers dipped in chocolate, or spicy termites.
The fungus has been successfully used for froghopper, grasshoppers and other pests of agricultural importance.
A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
On the dash a grasshopper recovered equilibrium and whirred toward parts unknown. Miracles, Inc.
a plague of grasshoppers
It is at this stage that Zombie Isner starts to look like Zombie Mahut and the Zombie Umpire stops croaking and starts to chirrup like a grasshopper. Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June
Even the grasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees — only a window rattled somewhere. First Love
The fungus is deadly to locusts and grasshoppers but has proven harmless to other insects, plants, and animals - including people.
Episternites: the upper pair of corneous appendages forming the ovipositor in grasshoppers. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
I bet those grasshoppers would taste OK if you saute em in garlic butter, but I don't think butter'll keep very well in my survival kit. The Proper Way to Roast a Marshmallow (and Two Other Foods You Can Cook on a Stick)
A few small grasshoppers and lygus bugs were found in the alfalfa but the number of these pests was low.
When scouting look first in untilled areas where grasshoppers would have laid their eggs last fall.
The air seemed to beat against my ear drums, vibrating with the piercing rattle of insects… cicada's, grasshoppers and huge black beetles.
The sky is literally darkened by the swarming grasshoppers. Christianity Today
They also occasionally eat insects, especially grasshoppers, cicadas and crickets.
He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season. Tartarin of Tarascon
In modern America, we associate the word locust with a grasshopper-type insect. Honey Granola for St. John the Baptist
It affects only insects of the group Orthoptera, like grasshoppers and locusts, and not honey bees, beetles, or other potentially beneficial species.
The vexation was a real one, but this is the language of a petulant invalid, of a man to whom the grasshopper has become a burden. Raleigh
Zemeks -- young, proud, not real-life worldly yet; that's ok, young Grasshopper -- you need to live a few more years on earth before you can engage me with your "real world" observations and advice; your name backwards is Skemez -- "schemes?" how you made it through school and interviews? it figures; Sound Politics: Anti-War Progressives For McGavick?
On its brightly lit glass shelves sit trays piled with crispy crickets, grasshoppers, other insects and worms.
Scientists group cockroaches, praying mantids, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, stick insects and some other insects together as orthopteroid insects.
These extended and late hatching periods suggest the need for continued scouting for grasshoppers in pastures and areas adjacent to cropland.
Many of the most destructive grasshopper species have poetic-sounding names: There's the whitewhiskered grasshopper and the threebanded, spottedwinged, redshanked and bigheaded varieties as well. Day of the Grasshopper Looms
The grasshopper-lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Lichen mimic grasshopper (Orthoptera sp.) of the western Andes (at 1000m), Ecuador. Western Ecuador moist forests
So she lifted one hand away from the other, and there the grasshopper sat on her open palm.
One of the most popular stalls at the festival is actually the West Coast whitebait another one is the huhu grub and we've also got the stall which they call crouching grasshoppers. Undefined
Wild turkeys can be spotted in the Poconos' open fields, bobolinks and grasshopper sparrows breed in the area's grasslands, and waterfowl, shorebirds, and herons wade in its wetlands.
The growth stage of grasshopper nymphs can be determined by looking at the size of the individual and the length of the wing pads.
That was what the French called the riflemen, grasshoppers. Sharpe's Skirmish
For Saturday's trip to second-from-bottom Preston Grasshoppers, Kendal coach Neil Rollings switches Paul Dodds to full back, displacing Chris Park to the bench.
Close relatives of the grasshopper warbler, lanceolated warblers are just as skulking and hard to see. A Year on the Wing
Bird exclusion also interacted almost significantly with year, which reflected the fact that grasshopper densities were lower beneath bird exclosures in some years and higher in others.
As a grasshopper nymph grows, the pads become longer and venation becomes evident.
Israeli leaders have described them [Palestinians] as "two-legged beasts," "grasshoppers," "drugged roaches running around in a bottle," etc. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The altricial chicks are fed primarily insects, beetle larvae, grasshoppers, spiders and small lizards.
These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
‘It was like a huge group of grasshoppers surrounding a paddy field, ready to ravage the grains,’ the report said.
[1679] Fialon, quoting the well known ode of Anakreon, "makarizomen se tettix," and Plato's theory of the affection of grasshoppers and the muses in the Phaedrus, contrasts the "cantu querulae rumpent arbusta cicadae" of Vergil (George.iii. 328) and points out that the Romans did not share the Greek admiration for the grasshopper's song. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
The great bulk of his insect diet consists of beetles, grasshoppers, and caterpillars, with a few bugs, wasps, and flies, and an occasional spider and myriapod. Our Bird Comrades
The nematomorph hairworm Spinochordodes tellinii develops inside land-dwelling grasshoppers and crickets until the time comes for the worm to transform into an aquatic adult. Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb
Oaxaca's traditional food is widely seen as the best in Mexico and local specialties include tamales, fried grasshoppers and a spicy chilli and chocolate sauce known as mole.
The spire is the knee joint from the leg of the lubber grasshopper mentioned above. Archive 2009-06-28
Thermal conditions in the previous year were strongly associated with grasshopper abundance in this oldfield prairie.
Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints.
They also occasionally eat insects, especially grasshoppers, cicadas and crickets.
Heavy infestations of grasshoppers have been reported in field margins and farmsteads, mostly in the eastern third of Nebraska.
It lunges at anything small enough to eat that passes in front of its nose, mostly grasshoppers, but also bumblebees, moths, and sometimes its own young.
Soybeans have emerged in many fields and some plants have had minor feeding damage due to bean leaf beetles and grasshoppers.
male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate
The worms, he suggested, are best deepfried, and grasshoppers are pleasantly citrussy. Times, Sunday Times
The king said to the paper doll in a loud voice. "I can't see the flea jumping, and that rude grasshopper dared to land on my face.
Insects such as the red locust, crickets, grasshoppers, and flying ants are collected in season and either fried with salt to make popular snacks or dried for later use.
Her father and her mother were the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat. CHAPTER X
Shades of Scott Westerfeld's brilliant vampirism-as-parasitic-infection novel Peeps -- New Scientist reports that a worm that thrives in grasshoppers and crickets somehow convinces its hosts into drowning themselves, leaving the worms in a better breeding position: Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives
No, true locusts belong to the same family of insects as grasshoppers.
The Conquhar was a swift, clear-running river coursing over its bed of gneiss, well tucked-in on either side by green hayfields, where the grasshopper for ever "burred," and the haymakers stopped with elbows on their rakes to watch the passer-by. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
Numerous grasshopper nymphs were noticed in the border of several fields.
‘If a few particular species of grasshopper are dominating an area, fire could be beneficial for reducing hopper numbers,’ Branson says.
Come winter, the grasshopper finds himself starving and begs the ant for help, but the ant instead admonishes him for his improvidence. Henry J. Stern: Tweed Still at It
The giant weta — related to the grasshopper and the heaviest of all insects — weighs 71g, more than three mice. The Sun
Eye development in hemimetabolous insects such as the grasshopper Schistocerca americana is a repetitive multi-step process which starts in the embryo and extends through postembryogenesis.
Hot, dry weather across the region has created the ideal breeding grounds for the plague that, until now, has mostly advanced - like the locust's grasshopper cousin - by hopping and walking.
- a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers" swarm - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries Word of the Day
In 1948 thousands of grasshoppers swarmed Montreal and outlying districts.
Lockwood's investigation, in the 1990s, of a biocontrol for a crop-destroying grasshopper revealed that it also harmed beneficial grasshoppers, and the project was scuttled.
The froglike, grasshopper-legged being into whose presence the constables had conducted the away team regarded its prisoners with wide, curious eyes. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
Cicadas, orthopterans (crickets, katydids, and grasshoppers), and anurans (frogs and toads) are among the animals that Darwin described as having ‘musical powers.’
No, said my teacher – she pointed out ‘batta’, grasshopper, as an exception. Lunchtime English lessons « Gin&Comment
While some xerophilous grasshoppers became scarce within the shelterbelt system, others, e.g. Calliptamus italicus, increased in importance.
The 5 bantam hens and one California white hen provide excellent grasshopper and slug control.
Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chir - ped like fairy pipers at a feast. Little Women
Presumably to keep the costs down, director Bert I.. Gordon shot real grasshoppers climbing up a postcard of the building.
The grasshopper weather vane takes pride of place in the living room next to a handmade checkerboard of about 1880 with marbleized painted decoration and the stenciled inscription ‘Fd. Champagne.’
Their main insect prey include: Orthoptera (grasshoppers and relatives), Hymenoptera (they eat ants only within this group), Coleoptera and larval Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).
Large grasshoppers called "lubbers," some over 6 inches long, jump out of their way. NPR Topics: News
Locusts are classified under the order of orthopterous insects of the family Acrydiidae, and are very closely related to grasshoppers. Argentina from a British Point of View
The festival was expected to attract 15,000 people who would sample traditional wild foods such as live and cooked huhu grubs, whitebait, locusts, grasshoppers and crickets, worm truffles, deep fried shark, pickled and raw punga. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The goal of a larva is to be ingested by an adult insect such as Orthoptera (e.g. grasshopper) and Coleoptera (e.g. giant water beetle). Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
Male grasshoppers court females by a producing a signal made by alternate stridulation, which is rubbing one hind leg against the tegmen, which produces sound.
The air seemed to beat against my ear drums, vibrating with the piercing rattle of insects - cicadas, grasshoppers and huge black beetles.
The present Fresh class is about the "reddest" perhaps imaginable consists of little shirt tail fellows about "knee high to a grasshopper", who think they cant be men unless they curse big, play cards, indulge freely Letter from Exum Whitaker to William F. Lewis, April 1, 1843
These include various lepidopterans and the African grasshopper, which adopt aposematic coloring as a warning.
He was a travelling carnival in a three thousand dollar suit, barking miracles yet unseen on Earth, a great lover of life, a celebrator of the little things, a glimmer of mindless hope, a grasshopper dancing merrily over the spider web of reality in which the rest of us twisted until consumed. Under the Buttonwood Tree (Excerpt)
In fact, crickets and grasshoppers are so sensitive to temperature they can even be used as a thermometer, by counting their chirruping. Weatherwatch: how to use a cricket as a thermometer
“The grasshoppers were the best,” Julia continued. Getting Air
I haven't seen you since you were knee - high to a grasshopper!
The principal collections are those of ants, termites and myrmecophiles, of grasshoppers and crickets and of butterflies.
A long time ago, there were a flea, a grasshopper and a paper doll.
It's also the hopper season, so grasshoppers and caddis patterns are the usual fare.
For example, in some of the parasitic species, the males infiltrate ants while the females take up residence in grasshoppers.
They will eat insects such as grasshoppers in the summer and cereal seeds in the winter.
The buzz of insects and the musical chirping of grasshoppers filled the air.
Seasonally they dine on insects, especially caterpillars, beetles, and grasshoppers.
I've actually found grasshoppers and crickets that had been cooked in the greens because no one cleaned them first.
One grasshopper embryo has a protein that closely resembles hemocyanin in sequence, but no oxygen binding studies to confirm its function have yet been done.
Campbell once asserted that, while ‘drouth, hot winds, grasshoppers and so forth’ posed serious challenges, the ‘Greatest hazard’ to the success of his corporation was the ‘human element.’
It is used routinely in Brazil to control spittlebugs on alfalfa or sugarcane, and one variety is now being applied widely in Africa against locusts and grasshoppers.
The practice in ancient Greece of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as "earthborn" greatly strengthened the doctrine of autochthony; for instance, the Athenians wore golden grasshoppers in their hair in token that they were born from the soil and had always lived in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
The catch, as I recall, was mostly insects: dragonflies, big fat cicadas, the gaudy but klutzy grasshoppers called lubbers, or Georgia thumpers. The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
The buzz of insects and the musical chirping of grasshoppers filled the air.
In sunny spots beneath the trees, where green grass is overstrewn by the dry, fallen foliage, as I passed, I disturbed multitudes of grasshoppers basking in the warm sunshine; and they began to hop, hop, hop, pattering on the dry leaves like big and heavy drops of Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
She said she cooked the grasshoppers and ate them with a little sambal (chili sauce).
All submitted answers are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. from cooner wrote 25 weeks 23 hours ago crickets, grasshoppers, hellgramites, and where legal small bait fish like dace work great What are good baits for brook trouts besides worms?
Piles of grasshoppers, their small innards removed and their shells dried and dusted with chillies, are sold by the scoopful. Times, Sunday Times
One child's level jumped from two micrograms per deciliter to 35 after eating the grasshoppers.
We have a man as Cinderella's broom come to life, fairies dressed as a celluloid tea service, dragonflies, grasshoppers, bullfinches and sunflowers, and four lovely dancers as the Seasons.
The fault is with the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat. CHAPTER X
Locusts can exist in two different behavioral states, solitary and gregarious, whereas grasshoppers generally do not.
Only butterflies, grasshoppers, mosquitoes and flies are netted there.
Find the tympanum on the grasshopper.
Would the relevant ancestors have been thrifty ants, squirrels and bees rather than the profligate grasshoppers and elephant seals appealed to here?
The grasshopper seemed quite minuscule in comparison to the beast towering high above him, who could easily toss the gangling spindle-legged insect to one side with a single gesture of his monstrous paws.
The mournfully monotonous chirping of the grasshoppers, the call of the landrail, and the cry of the quail did not destroy the stillness of the night, but, on the contrary, gave it an added monotony. The Witch, and other stories
Now, in August, the shrill sound of grasshoppers rang out across the undulating flatland beyond Sand Creek.
There are vast quantities of prickly pears, and myriads of grasshoppers, which afford food for a species of curlew which is in great numbers in the plain. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us.
The lowly Zayante band-winged grasshopper is now listed, along with the Ohlone tiger beetle and 184 other spineless creatures.
Walk toward this spot while watching this square-foot area and count the number of grasshoppers that you see in or jumping out of this area.
Diaphanously winged and provided with limbs far too long and interestingly jointed to be in any way aerodynamic, it would appear to be some kind of mutant grasshopper, a cicada maybe?
Upon the burning banks of broken rock -- gray wastes sprinkled with small spurges and tufts of the fragrant southernwood, now opening its mean little flowers -- multitudes of flying grasshoppers flutter, most of them with scarlet wings, and one marvels how they can keep themselves from being baked quite dry where every stone is hot. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
One of their challenges last night was to create dishes using some pretty strange items: Grasshoppers, jellyfish, chicken feet, cock's combs, unlaid eggs, stinky tofu, sea cucumber, eel, and 2 other items escaping my memory. Archive 2009-10-01
The creatures look part stick insect, part mantis, with a touch of grasshopper.
I've known him since he was knee - high to a grasshopper.
The two traditional insecticides used for grasshopper control in rangeland are malathion and carbaryl.
It was green, but it wasn't a grasshopper, despite having great big elbowy legs.
It wasn't the stark buzz of a bee, or the sharp chirp of a grasshopper - it was the simple, quiet hum of a butterfly.
They live chiefly upon fish and the fruit of the algarroba, a species of mesquit or honey-locust, but will eat anything that is not poisonous, even rats and grasshoppers. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Charles started reading when hi was knee-high to a grasshopper.
The polymorphism is common in many insect groups, most notably the Hemiptera / Homoptera (waterstriders, planthoppers and aphids), Coleoptera and, Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers).
Although locusts and grasshoppers are identical in appearance, they differ in their behavior.
Aphids, grasshoppers, and gall wasps appear in the Cretaceous, as well as termites and ants in the later part of this period.
The katydid, a type of grasshopper, is active at night and rests motionless amid foliage during the day .
This chemical is a growth regulator that inhibits the molting process in grasshoppers.
The insect was later confirmed to be an Egyptian grasshopper, a voracious plant-eater normally found only in the Mediterranean area.
Not only the grasshoppers but other family members of the Orthoptera are here described, including mantes, walking-sticks, katydids, and crickets. A Mother's List of Books for Children
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
What we call grasshoppers that is; and what are, really, locusts. The Short Stories
How can researchers accurately estimate where, when, and how many grasshoppers are invading croplands from surrounding areas?
The coyote is very wise, the moon is very old; but who ever heard much of anything of credit to the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat? CHAPTER X
They live chiefly upon fish and the fruit of the algarroba, a species of mesquit or honey-locust, but will eat anything that is not poisonous, even rats and grasshoppers. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
These include colonial fossorial rodents (marmots, ground squirrels) large birds of prey, and phytophagous insects (grasshoppers). Kazakh steppe
She backed out of the office barely able to contain herself from skipping and jumping about like some demented grasshopper.
The biopesticide is not toxic to humans and kills only locusts and grasshoppers and a very limited number of other insects; it has no other environmental side-effects.
A few fish have been taken on the dap, with crickets/grasshoppers doing the business, and the daddy-long-legs should be making an appearance soon.
It only took 5 days to sink to the level of digging out ants and grasshoppers for ‘protein’ purposes.
The same architect has been engaged lately on the repairs of the cupola of the Exchange, and the steeple of Bow Church; and, fearful to relate, the dragon and the grasshopper actually lie, cheek by jole, in the yard of his workshop. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
The writer cited instances of guineas eating pests like grasshoppers and ticks, along with incidents of guineas killing poisonous copperheads and other snakes.
The grasshopper seeks to understand the meaning of life, talks non-stop, and thinks the ant is missing out. Comic Review: The Grasshopper and the Ant | Fandomania
In one scene, giant grasshoppers swarm atop the Wrigley Building in Chicago.
Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the Pontine marshes; and across the cloudless, but dark lowering sky floated from time to time the cries of unseen birds. Dream tales and prose poems

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