Insect of the order Orthoptera, usually with strongly developed hind legs, enabling it to leap. The femur of each hind leg in the male usually has a row of protruding joints that produce the characteristic chirping when rubbed against the hard wing veins. Members of the order include locusts, crickets, and katydids.
The shorthorned grasshoppers constitute the family Acrididae, and include locusts. All members of the family feed voraciously on vegetation. Eggs are laid in a small hole in the ground, and the unwinged larvae become adult after about six molts.
The American grasshopper Schistocera americana is widespread in North America. The longhorned grasshoppers, or katydids, form the family Tettigoniidae, and have a similar life history, but differ from the Acrididae in having long antennae and in producing their chirping by the friction of the wing covers over one another (stridulation).
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2. Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin locusta locust, grasshopper. Related to Lobster.
Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae.
Swarming grasshopper, with short antennae and auditory organs on the abdomen, in the family Acrididae. As winged adults, flying in swarms, locusts may be carried by the wind hundreds of miles from their breeding grounds; on landing they devour all vegetation.
Locusts occur in nearly every continent.
The migratory locust Locusta migratoria ranges from Europe to China, and even small swarms may cover several square miles, and weigh thousands of tons. Control by spreading poisoned food among the bands is very effective, but it is cheapest to spray concentrated insecticide solutions from aircraft over the insects or the vegetation on which they feed. They eat the equivalent of their own weight in a day, and, flying at night with the wind, may cover some 500 km/300 mi. The largest known swarm covered 1,036 sq km/400 sq mi, comprising approximately 40 billion insects. + prikaži više