A Large Family
The crickets, grasshoppers, walking sticks, praying mantes, and cockroaches, strange as it may seem, are all near relatives to each other.
They all belong to one large family or order, the Orthoptera.
Or-thop-te-ra, is it not a hard word!
It will not seem so hard when you know what it means.
It comes from two Greek words orthos, meaning straight, and pteron, meaning a wing.
Straight-wing.
And do you know, it does not mean that the upper wings are straight, but that the under wings are folded down in long straight lines.