grasshopper

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Their farms regularly suffer severe losses from Senegalese grasshopper swarms.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2026

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

Ground-nesting birds, such as the diminutive grasshopper sparrow, are more elusive.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Other species that will be supported through the two-year programme include the large marsh grasshopper, lapwings and the grey long-eared bat.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2023

“Aw, Grandpa,” I said, “nothing like that will ever happen to me. I’d be lucky if I had a grasshopper named after me.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls