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A Grasshopper is a type of herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers can jump long distances with their powerful hind legs and most are also capable of flight. Swarming grasshoppers are called locusts. Real grasshoppers have short antennae. ?Grasshoppers? with antennae that are as long as or longer than their body, are in fact bush crickets or katydids.
In many places around the world, grasshoppers are eaten as a good source of protein. Supposedly, some countries instruct military personnel to collect grasshoppers to eat as a food source.