When the insect wants to move, it peels its foot loose.
It can do this very quickly.
Mollie wants to know what all these little sharp spines on the back of the tibia are for.
Let us look at them.
There is a double row of them.
Do they not look a little like a comb?
I suspect that is what they are, the grasshopper's comb.
Insects are very neat little folks.
They are always cleaning their wings and their legs and their antennæ and their bodies.
The spines on their legs are very convenient for that.