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Monday, December 29, 2014

Grasshoppers and Crickets by Susan Ring

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Book: Grasshoppers and Crickets
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202595-3

Introduction: Meet the Insects
1. The meadow
2. Yes
3. 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennas
4. the exoskeleton is the hard outer shell
5. 4 wings
6. They are narrow and long
7. They cover and protect the back wings
8. Their strong muscles in their long back legs
9. Grasshoppers have short, thick antennas.  Crickets have long thin antennaes
10. An eye made up of hundreds of tiny eyes
11. 2
12. Grasshoppers breathe through tiny holes along the sides of its body
13. They are tiny holes that grasshoppers use to breathe through
14. The rubbing of body parts to make sounds
15. They can propel themselves 20 times their body length
16. A tympanum is a small hole with a thin covering.  It is used to sense sounds of their enemy’s movement.
17. They eat plants and flowers
18. Grasshoppers can damage entire crops
19. Lizards, snakes, beetles, spiders, birds, and mice eat grasshoppers
20. They protect themselves by camouflaging themselves, spitting at their enemies, smelling bad, and/or flying away
21. More than 10,000
22. As tiny as the tip of a pencil
23. As long as a person’s hand
24. They are colorful grasshoppers
25.  Monkey-Hoppers
26. In the dry deserts of the Southwest
27. The Lubber Grasshopper

Chapter 2: A Closer Look at Crickets
28. No, only male crickets chirp
29. The tree cricket helps you figure out the temperature
30. Count the number of chirps in 15 minutes, then add 40 to that number.  The sum should be the temperature.
31. Crickets hear through their front legs
32. In the Chinese culture crickets bring good luck
33. The builder was unable to please the emperor with his designs
34. The cricket helped the builder by designing his cage.  The emperor loved the cricket’s design.
35. The Mole Cricket
36. They got their name because they live underground
37. Little shovels
38. They dig dirt
39. They work like scissors cutting the underground roots
40. The stone cricket lives in the rocky deserts of South Africa.
41. They eat by tickling worker ants until the ants throw up their partially digested food.
42. Weta Crickets can be found in small islands in New Zealand
43. The Cooloola Monster can be found underground in Australia

Chapter 3: Grasshopper and Cricket Babies
44. A nymph is a baby grasshopper/cricket
45. molt
46. 6, 10

Chapter 4: Grasshopper and Cricket Cousins
47. The two insects that look like grasshoppers and crickets are Katydids and the locust.
48. They imitate wasps when they sense danger.

Conclusion: Grasshoppers, Crickets, and People
49. The order is called “orthoptera.”
50. Straight wings
51. They study insects

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