If in Indonesia, especially in Aceh, grasshoppers will be very easily found in plantations, rice fields and even in our school grounds or in small parks of local government offices. For those of you who were born in the 70s and 80s, or when we were children, of course, really like catching grasshoppers to play with by tying their feet with string and then releasing them into the air.
If the Acehnese children often play with grasshoppers as mentioned above, but that is different from one of the other provinces in Indonesia, such as the foot region of Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta. For some people in the area also catch it to be used as food for consumption, for example, such as Fried Grasshopper and Sweet Grasshopper, as well as for other snacks that have become a habit in the region.
Certainly has a story that is appropriate to the circumstances of the region itself.
Every animal in the world certainly has one of the activities that every generation of animals continues to do, even these activities occur under any conditions, including spring, summer, cold, and other seasons in the region itself. Although sometimes there are species of animals that mate according to certain seasonal conditions.
Likewise with one animal such as an insect of grasshopper he will also do the same thing in each subsequent generation to increase their population in this world.
The way grasshoppers breed in multiplied populations certainly does activities that are equal to some other animals or are often known through mating. Of course, grasshoppers will always reproduce generatively.
Male locusts with a smaller body will be on the backs of female grasshoppers, then the process of copulation and distribution of sperm into a woman's body.
After intimate activities are carried out, female grasshoppers will exile themselves to find suitable locations for laying eggs in a scientific term called Ovipar. Then the locust egg is placed in the ground or under a pile of deciduous leaves, it will avoid moist soil, because it affects the slow hatching in birth.
In egg-laying a female grasshopper can produce as many eggs,
10 to 300 eggs. The egg-laying process is carried out for 3 to 4 days. Eggs Grasshopper shaped small hard granules.
The eggs will hatch immediately within 1 week if the natural conditions are warm or hot, but if in winter it will take up to 10 days, I quote this explanation from several references of fellow researchers who joined the insect observation team.
When the eggs hatch, dozens of green grasshoppers will come out that are not visible to the human eye if not carefully examined, this is because the color of the body has a color similar to the leaves at the location of the baby grasshopper hatch.
His small body size is added to the color that resembles leaves makes it difficult to distinguish between grasshoppers and leaves. Grasshopper babies will be in the green plant region for the rest of their lives or until they become adults. What's more if the eggs hatch in the rice fields, it will be increasingly difficult to see because he plays under rice plants that grow very close together or very tight.
So in this case it will be explained in a future post, of course with the same title that discusses How grasshoppers breed.
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