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  2. Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    Grasshoppers eat large quantities of foliage both as adults and during their development, and can be serious pests of arid land and prairies. Pasture, grain, forage, vegetable and other crops can be affected. Grasshoppers often bask in the sun, and thrive in warm sunny conditions, so drought stimulates an increase in grasshopper populations.

  3. Pseudochorthippus parallelus - Wikipedia

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    Pseudochorthippus parallelus [1] (often known by its synonym Chorthippus parallelus), the meadow grasshopper, [2] is a common species of grasshopper in the tribe Gomphocerini. [3] It is found in non-arid grasslands throughout the well vegetated areas of Europe and some adjoining areas of Asia.

  4. Acrididae - Wikipedia

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    Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera.The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae.

  5. Dactylotum bicolor - Wikipedia

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    Dactylotum bicolor, also known as the rainbow grasshopper, painted grasshopper, or the barber pole grasshopper, is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.It is native to the United States, Canada and northern Mexico and exhibits aposematism (warning coloration).

  6. Insect mouthparts - Wikipedia

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    The development of insect mouthparts from the primitive chewing mouthparts of a grasshopper in the centre (A), to the lapping type (B) of a bee, the siphoning type (C) of a butterfly and the sucking type (D) of a female mosquito. Legend: a, antennae; c, compound eye; lb, labium; lr, labrum; md, mandibles; mx, maxillae; hp hypopharynx.

  7. Chortophaga viridifasciata - Wikipedia

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    The green-striped grasshopper is single-brooded in the North and west of the Great Plains but is multiple-brooded in the Southeast. [4] In the single-brooded range, green-striped grasshoppers' eggs are laid early in the summer season. These eggs hatch later in the same summer. The nymphs will molt three to four times before winter.

  8. Brachystola magna - Wikipedia

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    Brachystola magna, the plains lubber grasshopper, western lubber grasshopper or homesteader, is a large species of grasshopper in the family Romaleidae, native to open and semi-open habitats of central and southern United States and northern Mexico. [2] [3] [4] Adults are typically 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) long, with females growing larger than ...

  9. Schistocerca americana - Wikipedia

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    Schistocerca americana is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae known commonly as the American grasshopper [3] and American bird grasshopper. [4] It is native to North America, where it occurs in the eastern United States , Mexico , and the Bahamas . [ 3 ]