Grasshoppers & crickets
Insects that sing by rubbing one part of the body against another: the grasshoppers, which use their legs, and the katydids and bush-crickets, which use their wings. A meadow in late summer is loudest with them.
Their ears are in odd places. A grasshopper hears with a membrane on the side of its abdomen; a katydid's ears are on its front legs, just below the knee, so a katydid listening turns its legs rather than its head.
- Grasshopper Acrididae
- Katydid Tettigoniidae
- Red-legged Grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum
- Speckled Bush-cricket Leptophyes punctatissima
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