grasshopper
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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
Other species to have been named after the broadcaster in the past include a wildflower, butterfly, grasshopper, dinosaur and ghost shrimp.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
The researchers partnered with farmers in Senegal who regularly face outbreaks of the Senegalese grasshopper.
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
He was a devout Buddhist who ate no meat and so few vegetables that I doubt if a grasshopper could have lived on what he ate.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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