CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Grasshoppers and crickets seem the same, how do you tell them apart?

1. Grasshoppers and crickets seem to be the same, how to distinguish them?

1. From the color

Crickets are all black, while grasshoppers are green.

2. Living habits

Grasshoppers live in the grass and on the green leaves of plants. They are born in spring, grow in summer, and die in autumn. "Grasshoppers after autumn" means that grasshoppers die after autumn.

Crickets usually grow in the soil or in the cracks of masonry walls. There seems to be a textbook in elementary school that talks about the kind of crickets that make holes in the soil. But they don't die in winter.

Additional information

Living habits

1. Cricket

Crickets live in burrows, often on the ground, under bricks and stones, in earth holes, and among grass. They are active at night. They are omnivorous, eating a variety of crops, seedlings, vegetables and fruits. Some behaviors of crickets can be induced by specific external stimuli.

Crickets are solitary by nature and usually live independently. They will never allow themselves to live with other crickets (male crickets also live with another female cricket during the mating period). Therefore, they cannot tolerate each other and will fight when they meet. A male cricket can live with multiple female crickets.

2. Locusts

Adults have the same diet as locust nymphs, both are herbivorous, and they need to supplement their nutrition strongly during the adult stage, accounting for more than 75% of their total food intake in their lifetime. They chew plant leaves and flower buds with their chewing mouthparts, leaving notches and holes. In severe cases, they will eat up the leaves and flower buds of large areas of plants, causing significant economic losses to agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry.

Some species are oligophagous pests, such as the East Asian migratory locust, which only feeds on plants of the Gramineae and Cyperaceae families; some species are polyphagous, such as the large-winged grasshopper. When the season is dry, they are more greedy and excrete a large amount of food without fully digesting it in order to obtain a large amount of water from it to meet physiological metabolic needs, thereby increasing the degree of damage to crops.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Locust

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Cricket

Grasshoppers live in the grass and on the green leaves of plants. They are born in spring, grow in summer, and die in autumn. "Grasshoppers after autumn" means that grasshoppers die after autumn.

Crickets usually grow in the soil or in the cracks of masonry walls. There seems to be a textbook in elementary school that talks about the kind of crickets that make holes in the soil. But they don't die in winter.

Crickets can chirp (male ones), and there is a game called "cricket fighting", but grasshoppers cannot.

A grasshopper is a locust, and a cricket is a cricket.

Grasshoppers come in many different sizes, some of which vary greatly. Some species are similar in size to crickets, but larger.

The katydid is somewhat similar to the grasshopper, but the male katydid also chirps.

Grasshoppers are brown, four to five centimeters long, have wings, can fly, and usually come out at night in summer. They like light. Crickets are short and black, have wings, but mostly jump. They usually come out at night in summer and autumn. They don't like light. They live in the wild weeds and can chirp. In the past, rich people would catch them for gambling.

Simply from the color, cricket black, grasshopper green

The one in the cartoon "Mulan" is a cricket.

Grasshoppers look a bit like locusts, but are not as big.

2. Are locusts and grasshoppers the same thing?

Grasshoppers are the common name for locusts. There are many types of insects with hard mouthparts, narrow and tough front wings, broad and soft hind wings, good at flying, well-developed hind limbs, and good at jumping. They mainly harm plants in the Gramineae family and are agricultural pests.

3. What is the difference between "grasshopper", "locust", "cricket" and "cricket"?

Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, and crickets are all insects.

Grasshopper is a kind of locust, cricket is a kind of cricket, and these four insects are species of two families and genera.

4. Are locusts and grasshoppers the same thing?

It is an insect.

In terms of common names, although in some places those with pointed heads are called grasshoppers, and those without pointed heads are called locusts or grasshoppers, in general, these three names are universal.

From a scientific point of view, locusts refer to a large category, and there is no one type that is simply called locusts. From the names of the family and genus, they are all called something locust. Among them, the ones with a point on their heads are not from a family or a genus, but there is a genus called something grasshopper. There is no such thing as something grasshopper.

In short, locust is the scientific name (referring to the superfamily Acridoidea), and the other two are common names, synonymous with the former.