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Meadow grasshopper Katydid Insect predation
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Cricket cuisine Orthopteran life cycle Molting Eastern lubber grasshoppers A voracious herbivore Jerusalem cricket
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Grasshoppers vs. crickets: What's the difference?
One makes music. One gives advice in Pinocchio. Which is which?
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Meadow grasshopper
A colorful meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) on a wooden fence.
© Sandra Standbridge–Moment/Getty Images
Katydid
Fork-tailed bush katydid (Scudderia furcata).
© Maple Ferryman/Shutterstock.com
Insect predation
D'Orbigny's round-eared bat (Tonatia silvicola) capturing a katydid in flight.
© Merlin D. Tuttle, Bat Conservation International/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Cricket cuisine
A bowl of fried crickets, tomatoes, and vegetables.
© Stockphototrends/Dreamstime.com
Orthopteran life cycle
The orthopteran life cycle includes four main stages before adulthood.
Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Molting
A great green bush cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) molting its exoskeleton....
© jarafoti/stock.adobe.com
Eastern lubber grasshoppers
A mating pair of Eastern lubbers (Romalea guttata), found throughout the...
© Corbis
A voracious herbivore
Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex) are considered an agricultural pest in...
Stephen Ausmus—ARS/USDA
Jerusalem cricket
Native to North America, the Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatus intermedius)...
E.S. Ross
Field crickets
A pair of field crickets (Gryllus campestris).
© Marek R. Swadzba/stock.adobe.com
Grasshopper
The grasshopper's green coloring makes it less conspicuous among the leaves. This...
© Kirsanov/Shutterstock.com
Dead-leaf grasshopper
An aptly named dead-leaf grasshopper (Chorotypus saussurei), of Asia.
Pavel Kirillov
diagram: the adult orthopteran
Internal and external body plan of an adult orthopteran.
From H. Weber, Grundriss der Insektenkunde (1966); Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart
Shield-backed katydid
Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex) are a type of shield-backed katydid.
© Jacob Hamblin/Shutterstock.com
Locust
Egyptian locust (Anacridium aegyptium).
Joaquim Alves Gaspar
orthopterans
Cockroaches, members of the group Orthoptera.
© Wanchai Chaipanya/Dreamstime.com
Elegant grasshopper
A male elegant grasshopper (Zonocerus elegans), native to Africa.
© Eleanor H Hattingh/Shutterstock.com
Katydid.
© Alexander Lobanov/Shutterstock.com
Praying mantis
A close-up of a praying mantis during a rain shower.
© Joe Balynas
walkingstick
Walkingsticks (order Phasmida, or Phasmatodea) are slow-moving insects that resemble...
Lilyan Simmons/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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