What is a grasshopper?

Grasshoppers are also called locusts. Adults are 80 ~ 100 mm long, often green or yellowish brown, with small males and large females, and reddish longitudinal stripes on their backs. The medial rib line, lateral rib line and abdominal edge of the anterior chest backboard are reddish. The front wing is green or hay-colored, with reddish stripes along the elbow vein, or the midvein has dark brown longitudinal stripes, and the rear wing is light green.

Second, living habits.

Adults and locusts have the same feeding habits, both of which are phytophagous. They use chewing mouthparts to bite the leaves and buds of plants into notches and holes. Some species are oligotrophic pests, such as Locusta migratoria manilensis, which only feed on Gramineae and Cyperaceae; Some species are omnivorous, such as grasshoppers with sharp wings.

Adults and locusts lie down at night and come out during the day, so they have no obvious phototaxis.

Extended data

Locust is an important part of the ecosystem of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, and many harmful locust species can cause different degrees of harm to agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry. There are more than 10000 species of locusts in the world, of which about 300 species can cause harm to agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry. Locusts can occur all over the world except Antarctica and the area north of 550 north latitude of Eurasia.

The area where locusts occur all the year round in the world is 46.8 million km2, and the population of 1/8 in the world often suffers from locusts. The most serious locust in the world is desert locust.