Came across this little fellow in my backyard

in #nature5 years ago

Came across this little fellow in my backyard.

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Grasshoppers are an insect from the suborder Caelifera and the order Orthoptera. Locusts are actually species of short-horned grasshoppers, they often gather in large swarms and can destroy entire fields of crops, because a single grasshopper can eat half its body weight in plants per day.