Interesting Facts About Grasshoppers

Grasshoppers

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Grasshoppers is one of the type of insects easy we encounter especially in rural areas. Grasshopper usually perched on rice fields or other plants and usually give voice typical in the summer or dry.

Insects included in the subordo caelifera which is the animal herbivores or animal eater plants. Grasshoppers often used as food bird pets and also human consumption in some countries.

Interesting Facts About Grasshoppers

In some areas in Indonesia usual baked or fried grasshoppers to be used as a snack. In other countries such as Mexico, is also commonly consumed insects as a source of protein and other minerals. Usually eaten raw, boiled, or fried and baked with herbs.

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Grasshopper auditory organs contained in the abdomen. Precisely in the first segment of the abdomen just below the wing. There are a membrane that vibrates when receiving sound waves. Hearing aids this insect called the tympana.

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Sound is generated by each grasshoppers has rhythm and intensity of different one another. sound produced this is what a criterion for females and males to find a partner.

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One of two grasshopper will not cause significant damage on agriculture. But since ancient times has been regarded as insect pests due in large numbers they can cause harm because of failed harvests per year.

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Grasshopper wings are not only used for the escape, but also to migrate. These insects will gather in large numbers to seek better food sources. they can survive in the air for 3 days without landing.

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The oldest fossil ever found grasshoppers of 300 million years old, older than the existence of dinosaurs. This ancient insects found in fossil form and have also been found in amber or resin issued by then petrified tree.

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There are approximately 11,000 species of grasshoppers are found all over the world. Liveable habitat generally is rice fields or plantations, pastures, and also in the area of ​​forestry. Her skin color was adjusting to the habitat as camouflage to avoid predators.

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Although small, the grasshopper can jump by a considerable distance. One tail insects can jump a distance of 1 meter a single leap or as high as 25 cm upwards. Compared to human beings if we have the ability locust then once could jump across the length of a football field.

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As part of his defense, when cornered locusts will spit out a brownish liquid, but not toxic. This liquid is often referred to as "spit tobacco" because the first is generally an insect commonly found in tobacco plants.

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Grasshopper have animal predators are quite a lot, especially those who have a larger size. Some of the animals that make the grasshopper as their diet is birds, lizards, snakes, frogs, rats, some types of cats, and other mammals.

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Active grasshoppers during the day and liked the warmth of the sun to raise their body temperature. Even so they can live in almost any habitat. Rain forests, grasslands, swamps, even in the dry desert.

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Japanese society like catching a grasshopper in the summer and is considered a good luck. But a growing number of grasshopper species is endangered because of the increasing number of urban and development of agricultural technologies to ward off pests.
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All photos of locusts, I take using MI4 Xiaomi Phones are located in Sumatra - Aceh.

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