!Amazing grasshoppers! Ethan

A grasshopper’s colour is brown, grey and green. Grasshoppers can move around in three different ways by jumping, walking and flying. Grasshoppers can grow up to 12.7cm that is 2 inches long. The grasshoppers scientific name is Orthoptera.

The grasshopper lives in jungles forest and fields. It likes to stay in leafy or grassy areas it will never leave that place. Grasshoppers are found in every continent except Antartica.

The grasshoppers life cycle has three stages. The fist stage is a little egg. The second stage is a nymph this looks like a grasshopper without wings. The third stage happens after 5-6 moths. It is an adult grasshopper this takes about 1 month after the last moult for the grasshopper to grow wings.

Grasshoppers eat crops like wheat, corn, barley, alfalfa and rye. They can also eat other plants and small insects. Their predators are rodents, mice, mantis, spiders, seagulls, reptiles and frogs.

Grasshoppers jump by using their big back legs to catapult themselves up in-to the sky. When a grasshopper wants to spring up high in the air they contract its large flexor muscles, bending its hind legs at its knee joint and take off.

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