Explain this!Giant bug from space? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No Fear. It's not a monster alien insect. When a grasshopper grasshopper, name applied to almost 9,000 different species of singing, jumping insects in two families of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers are long, slender, winged insects with powerful hind legs and strong mandibles, or mouthparts, adapted for chewing. bounded onto a car windshield, a passenger snapped a photo using a camera's zoom-in feature. This made the five centimeter centimeter (sĕn`tĭmē'tər), abbr. cm, unit of length equal to 0.01 meter, the basic unit of length in the metric system. The centimeter is the unit of length in the cgs system. It is approximately equal to 0. (two inch)-long hopper A tray, or chute, that accepts input to a mechanical device, such as a disk duplicator or printer. In the days of punch cards, millions of cards were numerically or alphabetically organized by placing them into the hopper of a card sorter, taking them out of all the stackers and putting look giant. How did the insect leap high enough to land on the car? A grasshopper's strong back legs give it enough spring to jump a distance that's 20 times its body length. Also, its legs are tipped with tiny hairs that release a sticky substance. Good thing: That way, it could cling cling intr.v. clung , cling·ing, clings 1. To hold fast or adhere to something, as by grasping, sticking, embracing, or entwining: onto the smooth windshield during the speedy ride. |
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