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The Grasshoppers. By Luke Owings. Grasshopper. Grasshopper Facts. A grasshopper can hop ten times faster than any other insect running. It pushes with its back legs to put power in its front legs to spring into the air. It can jump 20-30 times its own length by a standing start.
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The Grasshoppers By Luke Owings
Grasshopper Facts • A grasshopper can hop ten times faster than any other insect running. • It pushes with its back legs to put power in its front legs to spring into the air. • It can jump 20-30 times its own length by a standing start. • Without its back legs a grasshopper couldn’t hop. • They are clumsy at walking that’s why their legs are for jumping.
There are over 500 kinds of grasshoppers in the world. • Grasshoppers can be really destructive to plants. • When they eat they mostly migrate to a patch of grass. • In 1874 hundreds of Grasshoppers invaded The grasslands of Kansas.
Sources ! • Yes MAG : Canada’s Science Magazine for Kids by: Diane Swanson. • Kansas Kaleidoscope April/May 2001,p13 Kansas State Historical Society. MBC learn