Grasshoppers and Locusts
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Grasshoppers are typically ground-dwelling insects with powerful hind legs, allowing them to leap away from threats.
Grasshoppers undergo incomplete metamorphosis.
They have three life cycle stages:
Egg
Nymph
Adult
The grasshopper egg hatches into a nymph which undergoes five moults, becoming more similar to the adult insect each time it moults. The nymph resembles an adult grasshopper, however it is smaller and lacks wings and reproductive organs. Because it has a hard outer exoskeleton, the growing grasshopper has to shed it's exoskeleton periodically. A larger exoskeleton develops beneath the old, smaller one which is then shed. With each moult, the wing buds get larger, until, after the final moult, the wings are inflated and are fully function
When population densities are high and under certain environmental conditions, some grasshopper species can change their colour and behaviour and will form into swarms. When this happens, they are known as locusts.
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Grasshoppers undergo incomplete metamorphosis.
They have three life cycle stages:
Egg
Nymph
Adult
The grasshopper egg hatches into a nymph which undergoes five moults, becoming more similar to the adult insect each time it moults. The nymph resembles an adult grasshopper, however it is smaller and lacks wings and reproductive organs. Because it has a hard outer exoskeleton, the growing grasshopper has to shed it's exoskeleton periodically. A larger exoskeleton develops beneath the old, smaller one which is then shed. With each moult, the wing buds get larger, until, after the final moult, the wings are inflated and are fully function
When population densities are high and under certain environmental conditions, some grasshopper species can change their colour and behaviour and will form into swarms. When this happens, they are known as locusts.
Used to help write this summary, and for more information see:
Wikipedia
Facts.net
Naturally Curious
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