Is a grasshopper an insect or a bug?
How can we tell/how would we know?
2007-01-08 11:06:31 · 9 answers · asked by OnSomeLousyPlanet 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
A grasshopper is an insect in the order Orthopetra. It shares this order with crickets, catydids and mantids. Orthopterans have two pairs of wings; the forewings are narrower than the hind wings and hardened at the base. They are held overlapping the abdomen at rest. The hind wing is membranous and held folded fan-like under the forewings when at rest. They have mandibulate mouthparts and large compound eyes Their hind legs are often enlarged for jumping.
"Bugs" are insects in the order Hemiptera. They have mouthparts modified for sucking and an X on thir backs formed from the hemielytra (first set of wings) partially covering their second wings. We like to call them "true bugs" to keep the confusion to a minimum.
Laypeople refer to all insects and bacteria as bugs.
2007-01-08 12:15:11 · answer #1 · answered by dtbrantner 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, firstly - bugs are insects.
A grasshopper belongs to the order orthoptera, I think, and the true bugs are in the order hemiptera. So a grasshopper is not a bug.
Look at it from the perspective of properties of set. All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs. At least not given the technical definitions of the true 'bugs.'
In common usage, the word bug is used to refer to any insect (and I've even heard it applied to arachnids, though that's a mistake).
2007-01-08 11:09:04 · answer #2 · answered by Musmanno 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A grasshopper is an insect. In entomology, the term "bug" refers specifically to insects of the order hemiptera. Grasshoppers are members of the order orthoptera.
2007-01-08 11:14:26 · answer #3 · answered by JazzSinger 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an insect. Belongs to the order Orthoptera. Bugs are Hemipterans but are also insects. For complete explanations research both names.
2007-01-09 12:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by friggin_express101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A grasshopper is an insect and a bug. Bug is a common term for insect. An insect is "any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings."
2007-01-08 11:11:47 · answer #5 · answered by Mandrake 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I didn't realize there was a difference between insects and bugs.
2007-01-08 11:10:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
'bug' is just a colloquial term for 'insect' so the answer is it's both.
2007-01-08 11:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a cricket, but not a camel cricket. Camel crickets are larger, with bigger, thicker gold-colored bodies with stripes on their backs, and they have much more prodigious hind legs.
2016-05-23 15:24:45 · answer #8 · answered by Tanisha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bugs are insects..
2007-01-08 11:13:43 · answer #9 · answered by Fluffington Cuddlebutts 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋