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
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
Ground-nesting birds, such as the diminutive grasshopper sparrow, are more elusive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
By some standards, it is about as smart as a grasshopper; by others, only as intelligent as a bacterium.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The approved list includes grasshoppers, locusts and some silkworms.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“The Aztec culture pervades Mexico City’s daily life today in a thousand subtle ways,” Romero says, passing me a bowl of roasted grasshoppers, a crunchy pre-Hispanic snack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Among the more poignant moments, Charles laments the loss of wildlife at Highgrove, noting when he first moved in there nearly five decades ago he would hear cuckoos and see grasshoppers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
"The study gave them a better understanding of grasshoppers and locusts, as well as a practical way to control them at the local level."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
I said, “I know why the big grasshoppers are yellow and why the little ones are green.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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