Look, next time, Charlie, and see if the swarms that start up before you have not long, slender antennæ.
See, here is one.
Its antennæ are like threads, and they are longer than its body.
If you were to look at its tarsus, you would find it had four joints instead of three.
Otherwise, the longhorned, or meadow grasshoppers are very much like the locusts, or shorthorned grasshoppers.
John says he thinks the meadow grasshoppers are more slender and delicate in shape.
That is true, as a rule, though there are some species of the locusts that are as slender as the longhorned grasshoppers.
But there is one thing about these longhorned fellows that will amuse you.
Some of them have ears on their front legs!
It is not uncommon for insects to have hearing organs on their front legs.