Grasshopper is a herbivorous insect known as a pest with capable jumping ability (can reach up to 20 times the length of its body).

Commonly grasshoper has green or brown color. Grasshoppers are closely related biologically with cockroaches and crickets and belong to the Orthoptera insect group. There are currently over 20,000 species of locusts.

MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY BELAL

The grasshopper body consists of 3 main parts, namely head, chest (thorax) and abdomen (abdomen). Grasshopper also has 6 six foot jointed, 2 pairs of wings, and 2 antennas. Long back legs are used to jump while short forelimbs are used for walking. Despite having no ears, locusts can hear. The hearing instrument of the locust is called the tympanum and is located on the abdomen near the wing. Tympanum is shaped like a large round disk consisting of several processors and nerves used to monitor the vibrations in the air, functionally similar to a human eardrum. Grasshopper breathes with trachea.

METAMORFOSIS BELAL

Grasshoppers are animals that undergo imperfect metamorphosis. Imperfect metamorphosis is a metamorphosis that has only 3 stages, namely egg, nymph, and imago (adult). Where the physical appearance between nymph and imago is not much different. Other examples of insects with imperfect metamorphoses are aphids

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