you ever seen a grasshopper?Did you know that it is pretty vociferous insect is a predator?Hidden, it can be a long wait until the careless victim.Grasshopper attacks anyone who is less than its size, sometimes even to those who more than him.Grabbing the victim tenacious and strong legs, it breaks its powerful jaws into pieces and then eaten.Children fished grasshoppers, remember: a bite of green, brown or brown musician serenades very painful.Insect bites through the skin with ease.
Green, but not
There grasshopper insect, grasshopper-like so that the untrained eye does not immediately distinguish one from the other.It locusts.Life locust extends in two phases.At the time of "loneliness" fillies take protective coloration, are relatively relaxed lifestyle.In the second step, they form a pack.This is the main difference from the grasshopper infestation: insects, like the grasshopper is a herbivore.
knocking in flocks, korotkousye counterparts grasshopper able to a few hours to destroy hundreds of hectares of crops.Moves such flocks at an alarming rate, and the means to deal with them until they come up with.What else distinguishes a thunderstorm fields from a grasshopper?The short mustache shorter than the master serenades, rear legs, powerful forelimbs.Locusts do not jump, so her legs weak.Finally, grasshopper kills insects, rescuing people from them, and locusts destroying farmland, harming.
Another double
Another green insect, like a grasshopper - mantis.Of course, an entomologist easily distinguish one species from another.However, citizens are not always able to understand who is in front of them.Bol order: not everyone can see a praying mantis, so deftly he "pretends to be a" green sprig.Even some insects do not see it among the leaves and fall directly on the predatory insects, instantly becoming its prey.
Mantis can be recognized by the characteristic rack-like praying.It has a triangular head, a very long front legs.During mating the females bite the male's head, but even being decapitated, he fulfills his duty to "spouse."
Either stick, whether flower
stick insects - another insect, like a grasshopper.During the day he pretends to be a flower or twig (for which he was named), and at night looking for food plant.Even staring at the leaves, you can hardly distinguish from the twigs of stick insects.In Russia, these insects are green and small, but in New Guinea, there are individuals up to 20 cm long.The color they take the color of the surrounding foliage.These individuals can often be found at the exhibitions of exotic nature.
Have grasshopper "twins", many times exceeding its size.On Barrier Reef can be found domesticated giant Ueta.Insect, grasshopper-like, grows up to 9 cm, but weighs almost 80 grams.This is a record among insects.
sitting behind the stove ...
Looks like a grasshopper, black only, and our Russian cricket.These insects live in burrows, crevices, cracks occur in the field, houses (various species).In cricket flat body, large head.They say if he chatters in the house, it predicts the sad news."Song" home of cricket, obsessional and loud, annoying everyone who loves the comfort of home.
