The kind of bug that looks like a grasshopper and a praying mantis combination, is a cricket. In fact crickets are sometimes mistaken for grasshoppers because they look so similar.
praying mantis
an earwig.
The grasshopper has an exoskeleton to support it's body. The exoskeleton, which is comprised of chitin, also helps protect the grasshopper.
Grasshopper have 3 body division, they are head, thorax, and abdomen.
A grasshopper has one heart
# Find and catch a grasshopper. # Pinch the grasshopper and turn it upside down. # At the very end of the body, females have an appendage that looks like mini-pincers. Those aren't for pinching, they are for laying eggs. # Wash your hands.
More than likely what you are describing sounds like the larval stage of a dragonfly. When they are young, they look like a grasshopper body. They grow longer and thinner as they grow older and leave the water.
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.
Like all arthropods, the grasshopper is protected by a chitinous exoskeleton.
A grasshopper has an exoskeleton, meaning having its skeleton outside the body.
A baby grasshopper has six legs, the same as a grasshopper.
A grasshopper has an exoskeleton, the hard shell on the outside of its body.
In a grasshopper, all the body tissue are bathed in blood that's in the hemocoel. The hemocoel is the main body cavity of the majority of invertebrates.
The grasshopper has an open circulatory system which consists of 7 tubular hearts, which are actually valved chambers. These chambers circulate haemolymph, which is the body fluid in a grasshopper's body cavities and appendages.