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
"If someone reported us, we'd pick up the food and run, like a grasshopper," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023
The yellow grass made it hard to see my brand-new species of big yellow grasshopper.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
Our focus is on responses in plant-feeding populations, from tiny grasshoppers to giant pandas.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024
This summer, thousands of grasshoppers will take flight in northeast California, eating everything in their path and likely destroying crops along the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
As promised in the list, she brought a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat’s Cradle, and she read aloud to me, her soft voice mingling with the the frogs’ croaking and the grasshoppers landing softly around us.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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