It can hurt, and allergic reaction to the saliva is not unknown. Barring allergic reactions, express (or press) some blood from the wound. Then treat with an antiseptic like hydrogen peroxide 3%, bandage and wound check it either daily or if complications arise. Shortness of breath, the appearance of hives, welts or weals in large numbers, extreme itchiness all mean you're allergic. If you ever have a breathing problem, it's off to hospital for you. Likewise with huge, fast-appearing rashes. Minor rashes may be treated at home with antihistimies -- I still like diphenhydramine.
Most grasshoppers lead relatively blameless lives, causing little harm to crops or gardens.
However, some species of grasshoppers lead a "Jekyll and Hyde" existence, and can change into a very damaging form indeed, in which they congregate in huge swarms that can do severe damage to crops. These swarming grasshoppers are called locusts. There are more than 20,000 species of grasshoppers known to science, but only about a dozen of these form damaging swarms.
Locusts have two "phases" of existence. When food is plentiful, they exist in the solitary form. In this form they act just like other grasshoppers - they have no tendancy to form swarms, and they do little damage. They can exist in the solitary form for many generations. However, if food becomes scarce, they switch to the gregarious form. This form actually looks different to the solitary form, to the point that one would think it was a completely different species. However, it is not the appearance change which is the problem, it is the change in behavior. Locusts in the gregarious phase really like each others company, they join together in huge enormous (we're talking billions of locusts, covering hundreds of square miles in the worst cases) and eat just about every green thing they encounter.
One swarm in 1988 covered an area of 75 x 15 miles, contained (about) 150 billion locusts and was estimated to be eating 300,000 tons fresh green food per day.
Not at all. Grasshoppers are not poisonous to humans either, so if you want to share a little snack with your cat, go right ahead! ;)
No. Grasshoppers get eaten by all sorts of animals any time. If a cow eats a grasshopper by accident don't worry: it's just added protein to her diet.
yes grasshoppers do eat coffee leaves.They eat any plant or flower you give them except if the leaves you give them are poisonous anyways they can smell the poison
yes grasshoppers do eat coffee leaves.They eat any plant or flower you give them except if the leaves you give them are poisonous anyways they can smell the poison
They eat Daddy long legs spiders, tiny grasshoppers, also other small spiders that are not poisonous and probably the easiest to get them is ants. They like ants.
HOW MANY BABIES DO GRASSHOPPERS HAVE?Common Grasshoppers usually have 80 - 400 Grasshoppers each time. Large brown Grasshoppers (Mallimitoes) can have up to 700 babies, though.
Collective nouns for grasshoppers are:a cloud of grasshoppersa cluster of grasshoppersa plague of grasshoppersa swarm of grasshoppers
Yes, grasshoppers have legs.
Grasshoppers, in plural, is « sauterelles ».
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Grasshoppers do not have hair on their bodies. No, they are not hairy.
yes, most grasshoppers are herbivores.