{"id":129,"date":"2010-04-10T06:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thaibugs.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2010-04-10T06:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:37:46","slug":"grasshoppers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/?page_id=129","title":{"rendered":"Facts about grasshoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/69.93.146.30\/~thaibugs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Eumastacidae2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-351\" title=\"Eumastacidae2\" src=\"http:\/\/thaibugs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Eumastacidae2-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Eumastacidae2-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Eumastacidae2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;\">Facts about grasshoppers and crickets<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body. If you or I could do that, we would be able to jump almost 40 yards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A typical grasshopper weighing 2-3 gm will thrust against the ground with a force which peaks at about 30 gms when the legs are half extended, to give it a final take-off velocity of about 3 m.s-1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Swarming grasshoppers (locusts) \u00a0can do severe damage to crops. There are more than 20,000 species of grasshoppers known to science, but only about a dozen of these form damaging swarms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Swarms can contain billions of locusts, covering hundreds of square miles in the worst cases) and eat just about every green thing they encounter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> One swarm in 1988 covered an area of 75 x 15 miles, contained (about) 150 billion locusts and was estimated to be eating 300,000 tons fresh green food per day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Male crickets sing by rubbing a comb-like structure with a row of teeth on the inside of the hind leg against a ridge on the wing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Short horned grasshoppers have ears in the sides of the abdomen. Long-horned grasshoppers and crickets have ears in the knee-joints of their front legs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The extensor muscle from the back leg of an adult female locust (Schistocerca gregaria) can develop a force of up to 1.4 kg. This means that the muscle from one back leg of a grasshopper can lift almost a bag-and-a-half of supermarket sugar!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When a grasshopper is picked up, they &#8220;spit&#8221; a brown liquid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Did you know that you can tell the temperature by counting cricket chirps? Here&#8217;s how you do it. Go outside at dusk or at night and find a chirping cricket. Count the number of chirps it makes during a 15-second period. Then, add 40 to the number of chirps. The total will be pretty close to what the actual temperature is in Fahrenheit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Crickets eat just about anything &#8212; they&#8217;re omnivorous. You&#8217;ll find them in your garden eating rotten tomatoes and other debris. They&#8217;ll even eat other insects, including each other. They can also get into your house and eat paper, clothes, or anything else they feel like eating.<\/li>\n<li>Salvador Dali had a pathological fear of grasshoppers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts about grasshoppers and crickets A Grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body. If you or I could do that, we would be able to jump almost 40 yards. A typical grasshopper weighing 2-3 gm will thrust against the ground with a force which peaks at about 30 gms when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}