A grasshopper that can form swarms

How can you tell grasshoppers from crickets?

Grasshoppers have shorter antennae

The Grasshoppers Quiz – Facts Worth Knowing

A single locust swarm can contain billions of insects and strip fields bare, and the grasshoppers quiz explains how harmless grasshoppers change into such swarms. Learn how they sing with their legs, hear with their bellies and why locust plagues appear in the Bible and in recent news from East Africa.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Locust
What is a locust?
Hearing
Where are a grasshopper's ears?
Song
How do many grasshoppers make sound?
Antennae
How can you tell grasshoppers from crickets?
Jump
What helps grasshoppers jump?
Diet
What do grasshoppers eat?
Swarm
Where did a huge desert locust outbreak hit in 2019 to 2020?
Food
In which countries are grasshoppers commonly eaten?
Life
How do young grasshoppers grow?
Defense
What do some grasshoppers spit when grabbed?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What is a locust?
Answer: A grasshopper that can form swarms
Crowding changes their behavior and color.
Q2: Where are a grasshopper's ears?
Answer: On its abdomen
They are called tympanal organs.
Q3: How do many grasshoppers make sound?
Answer: Rubbing legs against wings
This is called stridulation.
Q4: How can you tell grasshoppers from crickets?
Answer: Grasshoppers have shorter antennae
Crickets have long, thin antennae.
Q5: What helps grasshoppers jump?
Answer: Powerful back legs
They can jump many times their length.
Q6: What do grasshoppers eat?
Answer: Plants
Some eat many crops.
Q7: Where did a huge desert locust outbreak hit in 2019 to 2020?
Answer: East Africa
It was the worst in decades in Kenya.
Q8: In which countries are grasshoppers commonly eaten?
Answer: Mexico and Uganda
In Mexico they are called chapulines.
Q9: How do young grasshoppers grow?
Answer: As nymphs that molt
This is incomplete metamorphosis.
Q10: What do some grasshoppers spit when grabbed?
Answer: A brown fluid
It may taste bad to predators.

The Grasshoppers Quiz – Jumpers and Swarmers

Grasshoppers are plant-eating insects with powerful hind legs and short antennae. There are over 10,000 species living in grasslands, deserts and forests around the world. Many sing by rubbing their legs against their wings.

Some grasshoppers become locusts when crowded. They change color and behavior and form swarms that can travel long distances and destroy crops. Locust plagues are described in the Bible, and an outbreak in East Africa from 2019 to 2020 caused serious damage.

Grasshoppers are important food for birds, lizards and mammals, and in some countries people eat them too. Grasshoppers grow through incomplete metamorphosis, hatching as nymphs that molt several times before becoming winged adults.

What This Quiz Teaches

Students and nature fans will enjoy these questions.

What locusts are
How grasshoppers hear
How they make sound
How they differ from crickets
Where they are eaten

Did You Know?

Some grasshoppers are brightly colored to warn predators.
Grasshoppers have five eyes.
Lubber grasshoppers can't fly.
Locusts can fly for hours.
Grasshoppers lived before dinosaurs.