What are the grasshopper caterpillars like?

In late summer or early fall, the Mama Grasshopper puts her bundle of eggs into a small burrow in the ground. There they stay till spring. When the warm days come, they hatch, not into cater¬pillars as so many insect eggs do, but into tiny creatures which look like midget grasshoppers.

These little fellows eat their fill of green grass and in a few days they Camp„ then burst their skin and grow bigger. They do this four times, getting larger with each molt. They are long legged little things, looking like their parents, though without wings.

After the fifth molting, the adult, winged insect appears. The grasshopper is now full grown.