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

"If someone reported us, we'd pick up the food and run, like a grasshopper," he said.  

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

She saw another grasshopper leap wildly away, and a pebble jar and roll.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson