The purpose of this electronic "grasshopper encyclopedia" is to permanently archive while simultaneously making widely available the best information available on North American grasshopper ecology, ...

To a zoologist, the leap of the grasshopper is one of the wonders of the world. An adult grasshopper can leap ten times its length in the high jump, 20 times its length in the broad jump.

The Gonzales (Texas) Inquirer says : "The grasshoppers, having about completed the work of destruction to vegetation, have, cannibal-like, fallen to work devouring each other ; at least ...