The essay on the green grasshopper is taken from chapter 20 of the book of insects

Volume VI. Chapter 12: The Green Grasshopper.

Insects, Vol. 6, The Green Mantis.

A certain passage in The Story of Insects.

Green Grasshopper: Beautiful, tender green, graceful figure, slender and well-proportioned. The life characteristics of the insects are as follows:

1. Love to eat insects.

Although the green grasshopper is an omnivorous insect, it mainly preys on other insects, and can kill each other when it is hungry, generally the female insect eats more male insects, and the green grasshopper also eats noodles such as nest head, rice, tofu, steamed buns, and fried cakes.

2. Like to be moist.

The eggs laid by the green grasshopper in the same year are all wintered in the topsoil, and in April of the following year, the weather is humid, the eggs expand rapidly, and after the egg shell ruptures during hatching, the worm body wriggles in another layer of membrane, and finally the membrane ruptures and is unearthed, which lasts about 2 hours.

3. Tweet often.

The body of the green grasshopper is grass green, the antennae are slender, the forewings of the male insect rub against each other, can make a bracket sound, crisp and loud, when the green grasshopper is disturbed, it makes a rapid sound, jumps under the plant and escapes.

Insects Content and Theme:

It truly records the life of insects, and their struggle for life and reproduction, and also reflects social life through the insect world, permeating the author's thinking about human beings, full of love for life, and praise for all things in nature.

In short, the theme of "Insects" is to write poems about the life of insects. With human nature to care for insect nature, and use insect nature to take care of social life, the insect world is turned into a beautiful text for human beings to obtain knowledge, interest, beauty and thought.

The green grasshopper in "Insects" has the following characteristics:

1.They like to eat fresh food, especially cicadas. They always clamp the cicada tightly with their powerful jaws so that the cicada cannot struggle.

2.Usually hunting in grass or on leaves, green grasshoppers are good at jumping and can quickly catch their prey.

3.Green grasshoppers communicate with each other through their antennae, which they use to transmit information, such as the threat level of the enemy, the amount of food, etc.

4.Green grasshoppers have a strong memory of physical features, which allows them to accurately identify their own kind.

5.Green grasshoppers are able to communicate through their voices, which are usually soft, but can sometimes make high-pitched cries to warn enemies or attract members of the opposite sex.

In addition, in "The Book of Insects", Fabre looks at insect nature with human nature, and reflects social life with the living habits, labor, marriage, reproduction and death of the green grasshopper. At the same time, the text is also permeated with the author's love and respect for nature and life, and the careful observation and in-depth thinking of the living conditions of insects, showing readers a wonderful insect world.

This article first introduces the call and predatory habits of the green grasshopper, and then describes the scene that the author observed the grasshopper preying on the cicada. The author feeds the cicadas to the green grasshoppers in a cage and observes the scene of the green grasshoppers eating the cicadas. The author concludes by feeding the green grasshoppers with different foods

Grasshoppers love to eat insects. At the end of the article, the author describes the habits of gnats and their own kind.

Appearance features:This insect is very beautiful, tender green, with two pale white ribbons on the side, a graceful figure, slender and well-proportioned, and two large wings as light as yarn.

Life characteristics: Green grasshoppers are mostly found in plains, farmlands, peanut fields, bean fields, corn fields, vegetable fields and other crop areas. The green grasshopper pays attention to the whole body is turquoise, without the slightest variegation, in the vast winter, this large emerald green grasshopper can show the beauty of nature, but also particularly dazzling.

Omnivorous, but prey on other insects. They can kill each other when they are hungry, and generally females eat more males. Since it can prey on some pests, it should be caught and used reasonably. The silkworm area is regarded as a pest.

The natural enemies of the insect include Beauveria bassiana, red parasitic mutilation, locusts, and sometimes they are killed when they hunt for bees. In addition to appreciating insect breeding, it can also be used as a natural enemy of pests for protection and utilization. In addition, its eggs are very nutritious and have a high protein content, which can be eaten fried or fried to the grasshopper is also a delicacy.

Grasshopper is the common name of some large songworms of the class Insecta, Orthoptera, and the family Mantis, which is large, similar in appearance to locusts, with a grass-green body and slender antennae.