Among these fearful animals, wandered two by two male and female grasshoppers as big as a man, the one playing on a pipe, and the other brandishing a great knotted stick.
The katydids, crickets, grasshoppers and other musical insects are all exaggerated in the tropics, assuming giant form.
Certain grasshoppers make a sound when flying that is like a watchman's rattle--clacketty-clack, very rapidly repeated.
The presence of the grasshoppers upon the Canadian prairies is one of interest.
Illustration: All that morning Rob fished and Nelly stuck grasshoppers on the hook for him.
You little children in the East who have seen grasshoppers only a few at a time, as you walk through the fields in the summer, cannot have the least idea of how terrible a thing an army of grasshoppers can be.
The third summer began just as the one before it had begun, with a great promise of fine crops; but they were no sooner fairly under way, than the grasshoppers came again, and ate them all up.
This is the way all Mr. March's fields looked in one week after the grasshoppers came into the valley.
All that morning Rob fished and Nelly stuck grasshoppers on the hook for him.
Just as the crops were well up, and bidding fair to be as large as before, there came all of a sudden, in a night, a great army of grasshoppers and ate everything up.
And then, to a cold blast from the East, a few days later, the grasshoppers all disappeared.
Then he went up the slopes back of the meadow and captured a handful of grasshoppers springing there in the rising sun.
Watch the crow in the pasture field and learn whether this bird kills grasshoppers and crickets.
The birds that are especially useful in destroying grasshoppers are the meadow-lark, crow, bobolink, quail, grasshopper sparrow.
The enemies of grasshoppers are birds and insect parasites.
Under the wings of grasshoppers may frequently be found little red mites; these kill the grasshoppers to which they are attached.
The younggrasshoppers may be found in spring or early summer, and a few even in late summer, among the grass of old meadows and pastures.
Fairies seldom are sweet by day, But the Grasshoppers merrily fiddled away, O but they played with a willoby-rilloby, O but they played with a willoby-will!
When day went down the music died, Grasshoppers four lay side by side, And there was an end of their Rilloby-rilloby, There was an end of their Rilloby-rill.
A friend of mine, upon opening one found its stomach full of the remains of grasshoppers and beetles, particularly the former, which he suspects constitute great part of the food of this species.
If they do not obey him he threatens to change them into grasshoppers and June-bugs.
The compound I require to change you into grasshoppers must be mixed on the first day of September; and as this is now the eighth day of September I must wait nearly a year before I can work the enchantment.
He wore a black gown with scarlet grasshoppersand june-bugs embroidered upon the cloth; and his hat was high and peaked, with an imitation grasshopper of extraordinary size perched upon its point.
If you resist the sorcerer, you will be turned into grasshoppers and June-bugs," declared the man, staring at them in wonder.
He saw, also, a flock of half-grown chickens foraging carelessly for grasshoppers along the edge of the hay-field, and thought wistfully what easy game they would be for even the most blundering of foxes.
I've seen him looking around your place, and lying in the bushes watching, while the hens caught grasshoppers out in the stubble not ten feet away, where he could grab them without any trouble at all.
The grasshoppers were thicker than people on a hot Sunday at Venice or Ocean Park in the "good old summer time.
He selected a spot almost under me, squatted down upon a flat rock, put two grasshoppers on his hook, threw it into the stream, and in a very short time drew out a good six-pound trout.
The grasshoppers are certainly there, and while it is not an easy task to reach this mountain, which is in the heart of the Granite range, any one of a scientific or curious mind can convince himself by going there.
Between them and the grasshoppers I am afraid the grass will soon be used up.
It has an insatiable appetite for grasshoppers and other insects.
Eating grasshoppers and other insects in great numbers, they are friends of the farmer and grazier.
If the weather is dry the Gulls disappear altogether; and if grasshoppers become abundant the country people wish for rain to bring the Gulls.
In grasshoppers the auditory nerve, after entering the tibia, divides into two branches, one forming the supratympanal ganglion, the other descending to the tympanum and forming a ganglion known as Siebold's organ.
In grasshoppers and crickets the ears are situated in the anterior pairs of legs.
Hundreds of little grasshoppers on the grass indicate that the grasshopper can reproduce its own kind, but in other respects the animal seems quite unlike the plant.
The grass shelters millions of grasshoppers and countless hordes of other small insects which can be obtained by sweeping through the grass with an insect net.
Mother, I must go to help him, and be the heir of his kingdom, where you shall be with me always, and rule the people of Cecrops that fasten the locks of their hair with grasshoppers of gold.
They sing and pray to the Sun and Old Man, asking that the grasshoppers and other insects may not eat their plants.
At the end of each song they strike the ground with their sticks, as if killing grasshoppers and worms.
Ever since that time the grasshopperswho started the discussion have been called katydids, and the whole garden is full of the controversy.
The Locusts, of course--a very old and fine family, and the Grasshoppers are pretty well, and ought to be asked.
She was to hide her eyes behind the grassblade, and count up to one hundred by tens, while the two grasshoppers went off to hide.
Grasshoppers would be more appreciated by more people if they were made with microscopes on,--either the grasshoppers or the people.
It preys upon mice, frogs, birds, grasshoppers and large insects, killing and then impaling them upon thorns until such time as it chooses to eat them.
Generally he was not voracious, but ofgrasshoppers he never could have enough; and passed the whole night during the hot season in prowling for them.
Things grow fast once they are planted, but what is the good of raising them when the grasshoppers take them all?
These short-horned grasshoppers fly much higher than the ordinary kind.
Those grasshoppers have never been seen in that country, the people say.
I never knew there could be so many grasshoppers in the world," he said.
No one at Fort Douglas or Pembina had ever seen the short horned grasshoppers till three years ago.
If he did not succeed in raising a crop, if the grasshoppers came again and destroyed it, he would be far in debt to the Colony, with no immediate hope of getting out.
Men, women, and children ran out into the fields, crushing grasshoppers at every step, the flying creatures dashing against them like hailstones.
Yet if the grasshoppers keep coming every year, they will drive even him away.
They're not ordinary grasshoppers like the big green ones.
And the grasshoppers have come again," Matthieu repeated dully.
He says if the grasshoppers come again, he will go somewhere else.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grasshoppers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
