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The grasshopper nematode (Mermis nigrescens) is a long slender worm that infects grasshoppers, living in the insects' hemocoel. Adult worms lay eggs on plants and the host becomes infected when the foliage is eaten. [ 52 ]
Anacridium aegyptium is one of the largest European grasshoppers. Adult males grow up to 30–56 mm (1.2–2.2 in) long, while females reach 46–70 mm (1.8–2.8 in) in length. Their bodies are usually gray, brown, or olive-coloured, and their antennae are relatively short and robust.
Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera.The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae.
The third instar is up to 2 cm long and the wing pads are triangular. The fourth instar has venation in its wing pads. The fifth instar is up to 3.5 cm long and the wing pads have changed position. By the sixth instar, the wings have elongated. [3] This species overwinters as an adult rather than in the egg, as many other grasshoppers do. [3]
Valanga irregularis (common name "giant grasshopper", "giant valanga" or "hedge grasshopper") belongs to the family Acrididae. The distribution is restricted in the Australian tropics and subtropics. The species is the largest grasshopper of the continent. Usually the animal lives a solitary mode of life.
Locusts, such as this migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), are grasshoppers in a migratory phase of their life. Millions of swarming Australian plague locusts on the move. Locusts (derived from the Latin locusta, locust or lobster [1]) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase.
Tropidacris cristata, the giant red-winged grasshopper, is a widespread species of lubber grasshopper in the family Romaleidae from tropical South and Central America, and Mexico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is among the largest grasshoppers in the world by length and wingspan, reaching up to 14.5 cm (5.7 in) and 24 cm (9.4 in) respectively.
Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight' and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.