*General Informations About Ants and Grasshoppers*

1-Biology and natuaral history about the ants:   

– Photos about ants

– General information

-what is   an ant ?

-where they life?

-what they eat?

2- Biology and Grasshopper history:

– photos

-what is a grasshopper?

-what they eat?

What are ants?

Ants are small insects that can carry more than 25 times their body weight. Ants are beneficial to humans because they eat other insects, but can cause damage to structures. Ants can make homes almost anywhere. These homes can hold from a few hundred ants to over one million. Ants live in ant colonies. Each colony has one queen ant, worker ants and male ants. The queen ant lays all the eggs for her colony.

What is the life cycle of ants?

A queen and her colony can live to be 30 years old. Worker ants can live for one to three years; but male ants live for only a few week.

What do ants feed on?

Ants typically feed on: ( leaves • fruit • sugary foods • aphids • dead creatures). These food sources are usually found on the ground. Ants will also tunnel into wood to form nests.

Where do ants live?

The areas surrounding houses provide a number of ideal homes for ants, including wood and soil. Ants will burrow into wood or soil and create tunnels where their colonies live.

Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish them from bush crickets or katydids, they are sometimes referred to as short-horned grasshoppers. Species that change color and behavior at high population densities are called locusts.

A Grasshopper is an amazing insect that can leap 20 times the length of its own body. If you or I could do that, we would be able to jump almost 40 yards!.

A Grasshopper does not actually ‘jump’. What they do is use their legs as a catapult. Grasshoppers can both jump and fly and they can reach a speed of 8 miles per hour when flying. There are about 18,000 different species of grasshoppers

Grasshoppers live in fields, meadows and just about anywhere they can find generous amounts of food to eat. A grasshopper has a hard shell and a full grown grasshopper is about one and a half inches, being so small you would not think they would eat much – but you would be so wrong – they eat lots and lots – an average grasshopper can eat 16 time its own weight.

The grasshoppers favorite foods are grasses, leaves and cereal crops. One particular grasshopper – the Shorthorn grasshopper only eats plants, but it can go berserk and eat every plant in sight – makes you wander where they put it all.