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Description

The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea).

Five Interesting Facts About Grasshoppers:

1. Grasshoppers can fly.

2. Grasshoppers have ears on their bellies.

3. Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs.

4. A group of grasshoppers is called a cloud of grasshoppers.

5. Swarms of grasshoppers, also known as locusts, can do extreme damage to crops over a huge area. Swarms can eat and destroy precious crops on a homestead.

Side Note:
Some animals that eat / consume grasshoppers are wasps, snakes, lizards, frogs, birds, foxes, raccoons, opposums, rodents, and even humans.

Description

The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea).

Five Interesting Facts About Grasshoppers:

1. Grasshoppers can fly.

2. Grasshoppers have ears on their bellies.

3. Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs.

4. A group of grasshoppers is called a cloud of grasshoppers.

5. Swarms of grasshoppers, also known as locusts, can do extreme damage to crops over a huge area. Swarms can eat and destroy precious crops on a homestead.

Side Note:
Some animals that eat / consume grasshoppers are wasps, snakes, lizards, frogs, birds, foxes, raccoons, opposums, rodents, and even humans.