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Grasshoppers vs. crickets: What's the difference?

Dead-leaf grasshopper

Elegant grasshopper

meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Eastern lubber grasshoppers

Grasshopper nymph and adult

Meadow grasshopper

pygmy grasshopper

Acrididae: grasshopper

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Grasshopper on white background. (bug; insect)

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President Richard M. Nixon smiles and gives the victory sign as he boards the White House helicopter after his resignation on August 9, 1974 in Washington, D.C.

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Dead-leaf grasshopper

Elegant grasshopper

meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Eastern lubber grasshoppers

Meadow grasshopper

pygmy grasshopper

Acrididae: grasshopper

auditory mechanisms in insects

arthropod nervous system

Grasshoppers vs. crickets: What's the difference?

Study a grasshopper feeding on a leaf and learn how fast a grasshopper cloud can consume a farmer's crops

Follow a female grasshopper as its eggs are fertilized, buried underground, and hatched

Witness a grasshopper molting as it sheds its outgrown exoskeleton

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Australian alpine grasshopper Pauliniidae locust katydid short-horned grasshopper shield-backed katydid cone-headed grasshopper meadow grasshopper entomophagy saltation heteropteran coleopteran ant wasp bee moth butterfly fly social insect apterygote

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

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Lion (panthera leo)

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Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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wasp. Vespid Wasp (Vespidaea) with antennas and compound eyes drink nectar from a cherry. Hornets largest eusocial wasps, stinging insect in the order Hymenoptera, related to bees. Pollination

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Aedes aegypti mosquito, a carrier of yellow fever, dengue, and dengue hemorrhagic fever.

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Malayan Leaf Frog - Megophrys nasuta

9 Animals That Look Like Leaves