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grasshopper, hopper
terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
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cricket
leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
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acridid, short-horned grasshopper
grasshopper with short antennae
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long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid
grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
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mole cricket
digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots
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Acheta domestica, European house cricket
lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America
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Acheta assimilis, field cricket
common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings
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tree cricket
pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation