The grasshopper

📖 In short

The grasshopper is a green or brown insect we see hopping in the grass of fields. It can jump more than twenty times its own body length! If you jumped like a grasshopper, you'd go more than 30 meters in one leap.

🤩 Did you know?

A young grasshopper takes 40 to 60 days to grow up.
Young grasshoppers look like their parents but without wings.
Some grasshoppers have short antennae, and some very long ones.
In some countries people eat locusts because they're rich in protein.

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🌟 Legs like springs

A grasshopper has six legs, and its two back legs are very long and strong like springs, pushing off the ground to send it into the air. It also has wings to fly further.

🔍 Musician of the fields

A male grasshopper sings by rubbing its back leg against its wing, making a chirping sound. And its ears aren't on its head, but on the sides of its belly!

💡 Its food

Grasshoppers eat plant leaves and grass, cutting them into small pieces with strong jaws.

🎯 Locusts

The locust is a kind of grasshopper that sometimes gathers in huge swarms of millions of insects that fly together and eat up fields and crops in a very short time.