Plant-eating orthopterans having hindlegs adapted for jumping. There are two main families: Acrididae and Romaleidae. Some of the more common genera are: Melanoplus, the most common grasshopper; Conocephalus, the eastern meadow grasshopper; and Pterophylla, the true katydid.
    

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Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.

Various insects and flowers illustrating a frontispiece. Engraving by C. H. Hemerich.

A leopard facing left surrounded by various named flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1662, after himself.

A variety of insects including beetles, moths, wasps and flies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.

When pollen springs into life... : Rynacrom : disodium cromoglycate for hay fever.

Historische en godgeleerde verhandeling over de sprinkhanen, derzelver Aert, Eigenschappen en Verwoestinger, in oude en latere Tyden, tot in de Jaren 1748 en 1749. Met een aenhangsel over de spyze der Israëliten in de woestyne, gemeenlyk kwakkelen geheeten / Uit het Hoogduitsch van den Heere Ernst Ludewig Rathlef vertaelt en eenigszins vermeerdert door Pieter Adriaen Verwer. Met nauekeurige Afbeeldingen der Sprinkhanen.

Southern Africa: a family of Bushmen cooking grasshoppers. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819.

Appendix secvnda ad Historiam Aethiopicam Iobi Lvdolfi, continens dissertationem de locvstis anno praeterito immensa copia in Germania visis, cum diatriba, qua sententia autoris nova de ... selavis, sive locustis, cibo Israëlitarum in deserto, defenditur, & augmentis contrariis viri docti respondetur. Qua occasione nonnulla S. Scripturae loca declarantur, & autores quidam notantur vel emendantur / [Hiob Ludolf].

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby.

The Royal Exchange, London: elevation of the entrance facade, top, and ground plan of the courtyard, below, with indications of types of trade in the courtyard, heraldic emblems of the City of London and the Mercers' Company below, with a scale of feet. Engraving by A. Walker, 1808, after I. Donowell.

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Southern Africa: a family of Bushmen cooking grasshoppers. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby.