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.
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
A grasshopper has 24 chromosomes in each body cell.
# 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.
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.
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.
A grasshopper has an exoskeleton, meaning having its skeleton outside the body.
Like all arthropods, the grasshopper is protected by a chitinous exoskeleton.
A baby grasshopper has six legs, the same as a grasshopper.
The thorax is the body region of the grasshopper that is specialized for movement. It contains the muscles for the legs and wings, allowing the grasshopper to jump and fly.
A grasshopper has an exoskeleton, the hard shell on the outside of its body.