GRASSHOPPERS

Life span: approximately a year, however the dangers of being eaten before this time are high

Life cycle: from egg to nymph, up to 6 mouts before becoming an adult (can take up to 11 months)

Fast facts:

• a nymph mouts up to 6 times before becoming an adult

• their antennae has less than 30 segments

• they can leap 20 times their body length

• flies eat grasshopper eggs

• the major predators are beetles, spiders, birds, rodents, reptiles

• the are over ten thousand species of grasshoppers

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