Feeding: Grasshoppers prefer to eat grasses, leaves and cereal crops, but many grasshoppers are omnivorous. Many will eat from multiple host plants in one day, while some prefer to rely on the same host plant.Grasshoppers bite their food into smaller chuncks with their mandibles - teeth that are on the outside of it's mouth.
Internal Transport: Grasshoppers have an open circulatory system. This means that things pretty much diffuse to where they need to go, rather than follow a closed set of veins and vessels.
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Respiration:the grasshopper have small openings called spiracles, on the side of the segments of the abdomen. These lead to a system of branched air tubes, tracheae, spreading throughout the body to all the cells. Air is pumped in and out of the tracheae by the muscular contractions and expansions of the abdomen.
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Excretion :Grasshoppers excrete waste by digesting their food in a similar fashion to humans. The waste is then deposited out of the anus. It enters the mouth, goes through the crop and then the digestive glands and finally it is excreted from the large intestine.
Response: Their antennas are very sensitive. It helps the grasshopper find its way around all the things. The antennas them feel around, hear things and smell things. They also have a ventral nerve cord as a part of their nervous system.
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Movement:There are several ways in which a grasshopper moves. They can jump, walk, or fly. The grasshopper uses its two winged legs, and pushes with a spring motion and off they go into the air.
Reproduction: During reproduction, the male grasshopper introduces sperm into the vagina through it reproductive organ, and inserts its spermatophore, a package containing the sperm, into the females ovipositor. The sperm enters the eggs through fine canals called micropyles.
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