Who can guess why?
Ah, yes, our wise John says he thinks it is because it is a young one.
What makes you think so, John?
I know, you remembered the larva of the dragon fly and of the May fly.
Those larvæ had no wings at first, but the wings grew, and finally at the last moult they were full-sized.
When first hatched, the locust larva is like the full-grown locust, only, of course, it is very small, and it has no wings at all.
It is a little dot of a thing with an enormous head.
Here are three clinging to a blade of grass.
Are they not funny little rascals!