The Grasshopper's always greener on the other side?

This grasshopper had an appetite for my tropical plant and he ate a few chunks out of the leaves. We know a biology professor who loves entomology. He thinks wolf spiders are quite marvelous and that each one has a personality. What do I know because I haven't considered any spider long enough to discern a personality. Grasshoppers seem a tad bit more considerable than spiders, but maybe not. Proverbs 6 tells us to consider the ant and her industrious ways. Grasshoppers are mentioned as a plague. Nonetheless as a single insect, the grasshopper is...handsome (for an insect)... or one of the more interesting looking insects that God designed. This is my opinion and Jiminy Cricket may have something to do with it. However, as an army or in a crop they would be dreadful, devastating and frightful. This single grasshopper was destructive no doubt and I should have squashed him, but the crunch of a "hard bodied bug" is one of the grossest sounds, so Christine and I shooed him away and I'm sure he is happily and hungrily eating another plant in close vicinity. Did you know...? Grasshopper blood is green because it carries no oxygen. In some places grasshoppers are eaten as a good source of protein. (Bible authority!) Raw grasshopper should be eaten with caution because they can contain tapeworms.

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LivG said…
Thanks for all the...um...fascinating info on the innards of grasshoppers!

They are neat looking insects, or shall I say pests? That one really was huge! Can you imagine how the Egyptians must have felt?

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