Grasshoppers are funny little fellows, and we like them—when there are not too many of them.
Summer would not seem quite like summer unless we heard the grasshoppers shrilling.
There are a great many species of them, and we have placed them in two divisions,—The Shorthorned Grasshoppers and The Longhorned Grasshoppers.
The Shorthorned Grasshoppers
They have no horns, of course, but some have short antennæ that stick out like little horns, and those we call shorthorned.
The right name for the shorthorned grasshoppers is locusts.
We call another insect a locust, but the shorthorned grasshoppers are the true locusts.