- Grasshoppers can be found almost everywhere in the world, except
for the colder regions near the North and South poles.
- When the female lays her eggs, she covers them with a paste-like
liquid that will protect them during the winter.
- Grasshoppers shed their skins as they grow, usually molting several
times before emerging as winged adults.
- They live in fields, meadows, and just about anywhere they can find
generous amounts of leaves to eat.
- There are 18,000 kinds of grasshoppers in the world.
- The longest grasshopper is eleven cm long.
- A Grasshopper is an amazing insect that can leap 20 times the length
of its own body.
- Grasshoppers have no ears. They hear with an organ called tympanum.
- Grasshoppers have five eyes.
- Like all insects, the grasshopper has six legs. The two rear legs
are specialized and strengthened for jumping, while the front two pairs
are used only for walking on the ground.
- When the female lays her eggs, she covers them with a paste-like liquid
that will protect them during the winter.
- Sometimes when you pick up a grasshopper, dark fluid will come out
of the insect's mouth.
- Because grasshoppers are sometimes found in tobacco, it is sometimes
said that this fluid is "tobacco juice", and that the grasshopper
is "spitting" at you because it is mad. As it turns out, most
grasshoppers can produce this fluid, even if they haven't been eating
tobacco. It is not tobacco juice though: it is a defensive chemical
produced inside the grasshopper.
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