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The swamp is home to nesting reed buntings, sedge warblers and grasshopper warblers.
The grasshopper warbler is a widely distributed but fairly scarce summer visitor, arriving in May and leaving in August.
She backed out of the office barely able to contain herself from skipping and jumping about like some demented grasshopper.
Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints.
Historically, the dynamics of grasshopper populations, especially nymphal mortality, have largely been attributed to variations in climate.
The insect was later confirmed to be an Egyptian grasshopper, a voracious plant-eater normally found only in the Mediterranean area.
A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
The lowly Zayante band-winged grasshopper is now listed, along with the Ohlone tiger beetle and 184 other spineless creatures.
The immature nymphs of hemimetabolous insects such as the grasshopper or cockroach for instance are born with adult-like morphology.
The growth stage of grasshopper nymphs can be determined by looking at the size of the individual and the length of the wing pads.
As a grasshopper nymph grows, the pads become longer and venation becomes evident.
Because blister beetle larvae feed on grasshopper eggs, there is often an increase in areas of high grasshopper populations.
These reports of high grasshopper populations are coming later than normal, and most of the reports have been of numerous smaller hopper nymphs.
Too much to do, too little done, too many ideas, I keep hopping from one to the other like a demented grasshopper, but slower.
These include various lepidopterans and the African grasshopper, which adopt aposematic coloring as a warning.
This is one of my favourite arias from one of my favourite oratorios, and a piece I have known since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.
Using my keen journalistic observation skills, I note that she would have been only knee-high to a grasshopper during her favourite decade.
The creatures look part stick insect, part mantis, with a touch of grasshopper.
The 5 bantam hens and one California white hen provide excellent grasshopper and slug control.
Thermal conditions in the previous year were strongly associated with grasshopper abundance in this oldfield prairie.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The grasshopper is banished to the garden and the Cheshire Cat smiles all over her face.
When the head of a weta, grasshopper, or cockroach is removed from the body and boiled for a few minutes in a 10 per cent.
Why, I ain't bin inside a schoolhouse since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.
At first he said he was a pismire, but the Speaker said pismire was not parliamentary, and he modified it to grasshopper.
Items recorded in winter but not in spring are house mouse, tree sparrow, and grasshopper.
The same type of mouth as the grasshopper has will be found among the beetles.
There, in plain sight, he took the bait, as a trout might have taken a grasshopper.
In China, where the grasshopper is a burden and mice are legal tender, it is not so.
In the high-jump, however, Hicks had given considerable promise, which to date the grasshopper collegian had failed to keep.
It whirled and shot off at unexpected tangents and danced as irresponsibly as a grasshopper from one place to another.
True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
She does not live on dewdrops, does she, like the grasshopper?
You are thinner than a grasshopper, and you won't make it any heavier.
He wants me to train him for his go with grasshopper Jake, and I did.
A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
He's empty enough i' the upper story, or he'd niver come jigging an' stamping i' that way, like a mad grasshopper, for the gentry to look at him.
The chirp is very loud, something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper.
The other one is epidermal pad, such as tree frog, katydid, grasshopper and cricket.
Think of that, with the grasshopper as groggy as a five days old calf!
She was knee-high to a grasshopper, and I was shoulder-high.
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