An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, mantids, crickets, katydids, etc. See Illust. under Insect.
an ordinal group of insects that includes grasshoppers, cockroaches, crickets, katydids, praying mantids and others
( ortho = straight; ptera = wings) the cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, mantids, and walking sticks.
Order to which grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, Jerusalem crickets and their allies belong.
The order made up of grasshoppers and crickets. Orthoptera means "straight-wing."
grasshoppers and locusts; crickets
Insect order that includes grasshoppers, crickets, and locusts.
The Orthoptera are an order of insects with incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts. Many insects in this order produce sound (known as a "stridulation") by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps. Their ears, located in the front legs, are interconnected in such a way that they are able to locate each other by sound.
