grasshopper

Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

The researchers partnered with farmers in Senegal who regularly face outbreaks of the Senegalese grasshopper.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

In a series of posts, Gen Kainerugaba said his soldiers had captured Mr Sebuufu "liked a grasshopper" and he was learning Runyankore, a language spoken in western Uganda, while in custody.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2024

“No,” he answered, “not all. If you want to know, I happen to be a ‘short-horned’ grasshopper.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

It said grasshoppers had flourished during the hot summer, while butterflies had been able to complete their life cycle more quickly and emerge in large numbers.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Of the 1.3 million schoolchildren evacuated from cities to the countryside, Mr. Scott writes, many “resorted to eating grasshoppers, snakes, and stream crabs as well as tooth-cleaning powder, paint, and crayons.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Among the more poignant moments, Charles laments the loss of wildlife at Highgrove, noting when he first moved in there nearly five decades ago he would hear cuckoos and see grasshoppers.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

"The study gave them a better understanding of grasshoppers and locusts, as well as a practical way to control them at the local level."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

There were chinch bugs and grasshoppers, months of drought, elections, slavery, secession, talk of war—the adult world of trouble, though, was not real enough to dim the goodness of an April morning.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt