grasshopper

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

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

So what would you call it if you saw a grasshopper as large as a dog?

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

Of the 1.3 million schoolchildren evacuated from cities to the countryside, Mr. Scott writes, many “resorted to eating grasshoppers, snakes, and stream crabs as well as tooth-cleaning powder, paint, and crayons.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The approved list includes grasshoppers, locusts and two-spotted crickets, among others.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

"This carbohydrate bias, or the 'donut diet,' is optimal for populations of locusts and swarming grasshoppers," Cease says.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

The only sound was the “Zip, zip” of the grasshoppers, the only scent that of the warm thyme.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams