short-horned grasshopper

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

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

Witness a grasshopper molting as it sheds its outgrown exoskeleton

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Also Known As	Locustidae • Acrididae

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Red-legged grasshopper

Acrididae: grasshopper

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

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

Witness a grasshopper molting as it sheds its outgrown exoskeleton

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