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friend or foe?

• Grasshoppers are actually a help to farmers.

• The Turnbull is a type of grasshopper that will dines
on the weeds that kill crops. Two-striped grasshopper

will eats plants that are toxic to cattle.

fascinating grasshopper facts :

• The smallest grasshopper is the pygmy grasshopper.
It's only 20-millimetre long.

• The largest grasshopper is called the giant grasshopper.
The female grasshopper is 60-90 millimetre long and the

male is 45-55 millimetre long.

glossary :

foe : an enemy

toxic : poisonous

mate : friend

snap : move

hind : at the back

weird : strange

dine : eat

weed : a wild plant

striped : marked with long narrow lines

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