The Best Biome

#20 – Grasshopper Grazing

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How can grasshoppers save the world? By doing what they do best: eating. But too many grasshoppers might end us all so keep that in mind the next time you turn your nose up at entomophagy.

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Primary Sources: Be sure to check out photos and more at our site!

  • Carolina Grasshopper poem. A Michigan Menagerie in Poems. YouTube.
  • Zhong, Z. 2014. Positive interactions between large herbivores and grasshoppers, and their consequences for grassland plant diversity. Ecology.
  • Chuck Lyons. 1874: The Year of the Locust. HistoryNet.
  • Huis, A., Itterbeeck, J., et al. 2013. Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. PDF.

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