Saturday, September 1, 2012

Grasshopper!

I found a grasshopper while mowing the lawn and put it in Gavin's bug jar until he got home from kindergarten. All 3 of the kids absolutely loved it. At one point Chloe got so excited about it that she knocked it over and the grasshopper got out...in my kitchen! Luckily I was close by and able to catch it before it was able to hop away and hide. Gavin thinks the grasshopper is "from the forest" because it looks like some we found there. It's all brown unlike the previous ones that we have found here. 

On a side note: Did you know that grasshoppers only live for about 30 days? They lay their eggs (which won't hatch for about 10 months) in the fall and die shortly thereafter. Their babies are born in the spring without parents....and now you know.

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