Editing Grasshopper (section)

==Relationship with humans==
[[File:Grasshopper detail in Rachel Ruysch Flowers in a Vase c 1685.jpg|thumb|Detail of grasshopper on table in [[Rachel Ruysch]]'s painting ''Flowers in a Vase'', c. 1685. National Gallery, London]]
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<!--[[File:Akragas, tetradracma, 410 ac. ca.JPG|thumb|upright=0.6|Ancient Greek [[tetradrachm]] coin, 410 BC, with grasshopper at right]]-->

===In art and media===
Grasshoppers are occasionally depicted in artworks, such as the [[Dutch Golden Age]] painter [[Balthasar van der Ast]]'s [[still life]] oil painting, ''Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects'', c. 1630, now in the [[National Gallery, London]], though the insect may be a bush-cricket.<ref>{{cite web|title=Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects|url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/balthasar-van-der-ast-flowers-in-a-vase-with-shells-and-insects|publisher=The National Gallery|access-date=31 March 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092300/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/balthasar-van-der-ast-flowers-in-a-vase-with-shells-and-insects|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

Another orthopteran is found in [[Rachel Ruysch]]'s still life ''Flowers in a Vase'', c. 1685. The seemingly static scene is animated by a "grasshopper on the table that looks about ready to spring", according to the gallery curator Betsy Wieseman, with other invertebrates including a spider, an ant, and two caterpillars.<ref>{{cite web |title=Flowers in a Vase |url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rachel-ruysch-flowers-in-a-vase |publisher=The National Gallery |access-date=31 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124951/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rachel-ruysch-flowers-in-a-vase |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The National Gallery Podcast: Episode Nineteen |url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcasts/the-national-gallery-podcast-episode-nineteen |publisher=The National Gallery |access-date=31 March 2015 |date=May 2008 |quote=Betsy Wieseman: Well, there are two caterpillars that I can see. I particularly like the one right in the foreground that's just dangling from his thread and looking to land somewhere. It's this wonderful little suggestion of movement. There's a grasshopper on the table that looks about ready to spring to the other side and then nestled up between the rose and the peony is a wonderful spider and an ant on the petals of the rose. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402103240/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcasts/the-national-gallery-podcast-episode-nineteen |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref>

Grasshoppers are also featured in cinema. The 1957 film ''[[Beginning of the End (film)|Beginning of the End]]'' portrayed giant grasshoppers attacking [[Chicago]].<ref name="Senn2007">{{cite book |author=Senn, Bryan |title=A Year of Fear: A Day-by-Day Guide to 366 Horror Films |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WJ6vBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |year=2007 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-3196-0 |page=109 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127023308/https://books.google.com/books?id=WJ6vBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |archive-date=27 November 2017 }}</ref> In the 1998 [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] animated film ''[[A Bug's Life]]'', the antagonists are a gang of grasshoppers, with their leader Hopper serving as the main villain.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Parihar |first1=Parth |title=A Bug's Life: Colonial Allegory |url=https://princetonbuffer.princeton.edu/2014/01/04/a-bugs-life-colonial-allegory/ |publisher=Princeton Buffer |access-date=30 March 2015 |date=4 January 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402175749/https://princetonbuffer.princeton.edu/2014/01/04/a-bugs-life-colonial-allegory/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref>

The protagonists of the 1971 ''[[tokusatsu]]'' series ''[[Kamen Rider (1971 TV series)|Kamen Rider]]'' primarily carry a grasshopper motif (for example Kamen Rider Black's Batta Man form), which continues to serve as the baseline visual template for most entries in the [[Kamen Rider|media franchise]] it has given birth to since.

===Symbolism===
[[File:Londres - Lombard Street.JPG|thumb|left|Sir [[Thomas Gresham]]'s gilded grasshopper symbol, [[Lombard Street, London]], 1563]]

Grasshoppers are sometimes used as symbols.<ref name="Hazard"/> During the [[Archaic Greece|Greek Archaic Era]], the grasshopper was the symbol of the ''[[polis]]'' of [[Classical Athens|Athens]],<ref name="Roche2005">{{cite book |last1=Roche |first1=Paul |title=Aristophanes: The Complete Plays: A New Translation by Paul Roche |date=2005 |publisher=New American Library |isbn=978-0-451-21409-6 |page=176}}</ref> possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of [[Attica]].<ref name="Roche2005"/> Native Athenians for a while wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolise that they were of pure Athenian lineage with no foreign ancestors.<ref name="Roche2005"/> In addition, [[Peisistratus]] hung the figure of a kind of grasshopper before the [[Acropolis of Athens]] as [[apotropaic magic]].<ref name="A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0063:id=fascinum-cn A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Fascinum]</ref>

Another symbolic use of the grasshopper is Sir [[Thomas Gresham]]'s gilded grasshopper in [[Lombard Street, London]], dating from 1563;{{efn|The symbol is a wordplay on the name Gresham and "grass".<ref name="Hazard">{{cite book |last=Hazard |first=Mary E. |title=Elizabethan Silent Language |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtFtcD-u6YoC&pg=PA9 |year=2000 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=0-8032-2397-8 |page=9 |quote=research into Elizabethan wordplay reveals the proprietary nature of Gresham's grasshopper. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127023308/https://books.google.com/books?id=wtFtcD-u6YoC&pg=PA9 |archive-date=27 November 2017}}</ref>}} the building was for a while the headquarters of the [[Guardian Royal Exchange]], but the company declined to use the symbol for fear of confusion with the locust.<ref>{{cite web |title=The City's golden grasshopper |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-citys-golden-grasshopper/163810.article |author=Connell, Tim |date=9 January 1998 |publisher=Times Higher Education Supplement |access-date=31 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129085021/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-citys-golden-grasshopper/163810.article |archive-date=29 November 2016}}</ref>

Grasshoppers appearing in dreams have been interpreted as symbols of "Freedom, independence, spiritual enlightenment, inability to settle down or commit to decision". Locusts are taken literally to mean devastation of crops in the case of farmers; figuratively as "wicked men and women" for non-farmers; and "Extravagance, misfortune, & ephemeral happiness" by "gypsies".<ref name=Klein>{{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Barrett A. |title=The Curious Connection Between Insects and Dreams |journal=Insects |date=2012 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=1–17 |doi-access=free |doi=10.3390/insects3010001|pmid=26467945 |pmc=4553613 }}</ref>

===As food===
<!--[[File:Walang crispy pedas manis.jpg|thumb|upright|Hot and sweet crispy grasshoppers, [[Yogyakarta Special Region|Yogyakarta]], Indonesia]]-->
[[File:Fried grasshoper.jpg|thumb|Fried grasshoppers from Gunung Kidul, [[Yogyakarta Special Region|Yogyakarta]], Indonesia]]
[[File:Inago no tsukudani 02.jpg|thumb| Sweet-and-salty grasshoppers dish in Japan (''[[Inago no Tsukudani]]'')]]

In some countries, grasshoppers are used as food.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aman |first1=Paul |last2=Frederich |first2=Michel |last3=Uyttenbroeck |first3=Roel |last4=Hatt |first4=Séverin |last5=Malik |first5=Priyanka |last6=Lebecque |first6=Simon |last7=Hamaidia |first7=Malik |last8=Miazek |first8=Krystian |last9=Goffin |first9=Dorothée |last10=Willems |first10=Luc |last11=Deleu |first11=Magali |last12=Fauconnier |first12=Marie-Laure |last13=Richel |first13=Aurore |last14=De Pauw |first14=Edwin |last15=Blecker |first15=Christophe |last16=Arnaud |first16=Monty |last17=Francis |first17=Frédéric |last18=Haubruge |first18=Eric |last19=Danthine |first19=Sabine |year=2016 |title=Grasshoppers as a food source? A review |journal=Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement |volume=20 |pages=337–352 |issn=1370-6233 |url=http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1780-4507/index.php?id=12974 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531110646/http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1780-4507/index.php?id=12974 |archive-date=31 May 2016 }}</ref> In southern [[Mexico]], grasshoppers, known as ''[[chapulines]]'', are eaten in a variety of dishes, such as in [[tortilla]]s with chilli sauce.<ref name=Kennedy>{{cite book |author=Kennedy, Diana |title=Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9j3iBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT754 |year=2011 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-77389-9 |page=754 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127023308/https://books.google.com/books?id=9j3iBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT754 |archive-date=27 November 2017 }}</ref> Grasshoppers are served on skewers in some Chinese food markets, like the [[Donghuamen Night Market]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dōnghuámén Night Market |url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china/beijing/restaurants/street-food-hawkers/donghuamen-night-market |publisher=Lonely Planet |access-date=5 May 2015 |quote=the bustling night market near Wangfujing Dajie is a veritable food zoo: lamb, beef and chicken skewers, corn on the cob, smelly dòufu (tofu), cicadas, grasshoppers, kidneys, quail eggs, snake, squid |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311091450/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china/beijing/restaurants/street-food-hawkers/donghuamen-night-market |archive-date=11 March 2015 }}</ref> Fried grasshoppers (''walang goreng'') are eaten in the [[Gunung Kidul Regency]], [[Special Region of Yogyakarta|Yogyakarta]], [[Java]] in Indonesia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Walang Goreng Khas Gunung Kidul |url=http://umkmjogja.com/product/walang-goreng-khas-gunung-kidul|publisher=UMKM Jogja|access-date=30 March 2015 |language=id|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306121955/https://umkmjogja.com/product/walang-goreng-khas-gunung-kidul |archive-date=6 March 2016}}</ref><!--In the Arab world, grasshoppers are boiled, salted, and sun-dried, and eaten as snacks.<ref>{{cite journal |last=King |first=Bes Sie |date=23 December 2009 |title=Snack on grasshoppers |url=http://archives.jrn.columbia.edu/2009/nyfoodchain.com/2009/12/23/snack-on-grasshoppers/ |journal=NY Food Chain |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |access-date=24 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224191253/http://archives.jrn.columbia.edu/2009/nyfoodchain.com/2009/12/23/snack-on-grasshoppers/ |archive-date=24 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>--> Grasshoppers are a beloved delicacy in Uganda; they are usually eaten fried (most commonly in November and May after the rains).<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-12-02|title=The Ugandan love of grasshoppers - and how to harvest them|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46357020|access-date=2021-11-27}}</ref> In America, the [[Ohlone]] burned grassland to herd grasshoppers into pits where they could be collected as food.<ref name="Margolin">{{cite book |last1=Margolin |first1=Malcolm |last2=Harney |first2=Michael (illus.) |title=The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco–Monterey Bay Area |date=October 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MjX3oUTYKnAC&pg=PT54 |publisher=Heyday |isbn=978-1-59714-219-9 |page=54 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127023307/https://books.google.com/books?id=MjX3oUTYKnAC&pg=PT54 |archive-date=27 November 2017 }}</ref>

<!--[[File:Skewered locusts.jpg|thumb|upright|Skewered locusts in [[Beijing]], China]]-->
It is recorded in the Bible that [[John the Baptist]] ate locusts and wild honey (Greek: ἀκρίδες καὶ μέλι ἄγριον, ''akrídes kaì méli ágrion'') while living in the wilderness.<ref>{{Bibleverse|Mark|1:6|ASV}}; {{Bibleverse|Matthew|3:4|ASV}}</ref> However, because of a tradition of depicting him as an [[asceticism|ascetic]], attempts have been made to explain that the ''locusts'' were in fact a suitably ascetic [[vegetarian]] food such as [[carob]] beans, notwithstanding the fact that the word ''ἀκρίδες'' means plainly ''grasshoppers''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brock |first1=Sebastian |title=St John the Baptist's diet – according to some early Eastern Christian sources |url=https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/3763/John-the-Baptists-Diet.pdf.download |publisher=St John's College, Oxford |access-date=4 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102311/http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/3763/John-the-Baptists-Diet.pdf.download |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kelhoffer |first1=James A. |title=Did John the Baptist Eat Like a Former Essene? Locust-Eating in the Ancient Near East and at Qumran |journal=Dead Sea Discoveries |date=2004 |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=293–314 |jstor=4193332 |quote=There is no reason, however, to question the plausibility of Mark 1:6c, that John regularly ate these foods while in the wilderness. |doi=10.1163/1568517042643756|url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-141403 }}</ref>

In recent years, with the search for alternative healthy and sustainable protein sources, grasshoppers are being cultivated by commercial companies operating grasshopper farms and are being used as food and protein supplements.

===As pests===
[[File:Grasshopper eating the maize leaf.jpg|thumb|left|Crop pest: grasshopper eating a [[maize]] leaf]]

Grasshoppers eat large quantities of foliage both as adults and during their development, and can be serious pests of arid land and prairies. Pasture, grain, forage, vegetable and other crops can be affected. Grasshoppers often bask in the sun, and thrive in warm sunny conditions, so drought stimulates an increase in grasshopper populations. A single season of drought is not normally sufficient to stimulate a major population increase, but several successive dry seasons can do so, especially if the intervening winters are mild so that large numbers of nymphs survive. Although sunny weather stimulates growth, there needs to be an adequate food supply for the increasing grasshopper population. This means that although precipitation is needed to stimulate plant growth, prolonged periods of cloudy weather will slow nymphal development.<ref name=Capinera1710>Capinera, 2008. pp. 1710–1712</ref>

Grasshoppers can best be prevented from becoming pests by manipulating their environment. Shade provided by trees will discourage them and they may be prevented from moving onto developing crops by removing coarse vegetation from fallow land and field margins and discouraging thick growth beside ditches and on roadside verges. With increasing numbers of grasshoppers, predator numbers may increase, but this seldom happens rapidly enough to have much effect on populations. Biological control is being investigated, and spores of the protozoan parasite ''[[Nosema locustae]]'' can be used mixed with bait to control grasshoppers, being more effective with immature insects.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/registration/fs_PC-117001_01-Oct-00.pdf |title=''Nosema Locustae'' (117001) Fact Sheet |publisher=U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |date=October 2000 |access-date=6 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817073223/https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/registration/fs_PC-117001_01-Oct-00.pdf |archive-date=17 August 2016 }}</ref> On a small scale, [[Azadirachta indica|neem products]] can be effective as a feeding deterrent and as a disruptor of nymphal development. [[Insecticide]]s can be used, but adult grasshoppers are difficult to kill, and as they move into fields from surrounding rank growth, crops may soon become reinfested.<ref name=Capinera1710/>

Some grasshopper species, like the Chinese rice grasshopper, are a pest in [[rice]] paddies. Ploughing exposes the eggs on the surface of the field, to be destroyed by sunshine or eaten by natural enemies. Some eggs may be buried too deeply in the soil for hatching to take place.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rice grasshopper (Oxya chinensis) |url=http://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/Datasheet.aspx?dsid=38206 |publisher=Plantwise |access-date=16 December 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525024556/http://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/Datasheet.aspx?dsid=38206 |archive-date=25 May 2017 }}</ref>
[[File:"Grangers versus Grasshoppers on the Irrepressible Conflict," St. Peter, Minnesota - DPLA - 22822be747ad4bcf8dd4974ee2274aa6 (cropped).jpg|alt=Illustration of grasshoppers attacking farmers.|thumb|Grangers versus Grasshoppers on the Irrepressible Conflict, St. Peter, Minnesota.]]
Locust plagues can have devastating effects on human populations, causing [[famine]]s and population upheavals. They are mentioned in both the [[Quran|Qur’an]] and the [[Bible]] and have also been held responsible for [[cholera]] epidemics, resulting from the corpses of locusts drowned in the Mediterranean Sea and decomposing on beaches.<ref name=Capinera1181>Capinera, 2008. pp 1181–1183</ref> The [[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]] and other organisations monitor locust activity around the world. Timely application of pesticides can prevent nomadic bands of hoppers from forming before dense swarms of adults can build up.<ref name=FAO>{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts-CCA/en/1013/ |title=Control |work=Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |access-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404223501/http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts-CCA/en/1013/ |archive-date=4 April 2015 }}</ref> Besides conventional control using contact insecticides,<ref name=FAO/> [[biological pest control]] using the [[entomopathogenic fungus]] ''[[Metarhizium acridum]]'', which specifically infects grasshoppers, has been used with some success.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Biological Control of Locusts and Grasshoppers | journal=Annual Review of Entomology| volume=46| pages=667–702 | year=2001 |author1=Lomer, C.J. |author2=Bateman, R.P. |author3=Johnson, D.L. |author4=Langewald, J. |author5=Thomas, M. | doi=10.1146/annurev.ento.46.1.667 | pmid=11112183 }}</ref>

===Detection  of explosives===
In February 2020, researchers from [[Washington University in St. Louis]] announced they had engineered "cyborg grasshoppers" capable of accurately detecting explosives. In the project, funded by the [[Office of Naval Research|US Office of Naval Research]], researchers fitted grasshoppers with lightweight sensor backpacks that recorded and transmitted the electrical activity of their antennal lobes to a computer. According to the researchers, the grasshoppers were able to detect the location of the highest concentration of explosives. The researchers also tested the effect of combining sensorial information from several grasshoppers on detection accuracy. The neural activity from seven grasshoppers yielded an average detection accuracy rate of 80%, whereas a single grasshopper yielded a 60% rate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bomb-sniffing-grasshoppers-tested-by-scientists/ar-BB107oVv|title=Bomb-sniffing grasshoppers tested by scientists|website=www.msn.com|access-date=2020-02-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/02/cyborg-grasshopper-engineered-to-sniff-explosives/|title='Cyborg' grasshopper engineered to sniff explosives|last=staff|first=E&T editorial|date=2020-02-18|website=eandt.theiet.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-20}}</ref>

===In literature===
[[File:Egyptian-snḥm 2.PNG|thumb|left|Egyptian hieroglyphs "snḥm"]]
The Egyptian word for locust or grasshopper was written ''snḥm'' in the consonantal hieroglyphic writing system. The pharaoh [[Ramesses II]] compared the armies of the [[Hittites]] to locusts: "They covered the mountains and valleys and were like locusts in their multitude."<ref>{{cite web |last=Dollinger |first=André |title=Insects |url=http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/bestiary/insects.htm |publisher=Reshafim |access-date=30 March 2015 |date=January 2010 |orig-year=2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401025144/http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/bestiary/insects.htm |archive-date=1 April 2015 }}</ref>

One of [[Aesop's Fables]], later retold by [[La Fontaine]], is the tale of ''[[The Ant and the Grasshopper]]''. The ant works hard all summer, while the grasshopper plays. In winter, the ant is ready but the grasshopper starves. [[Somerset Maugham]]'s short story "The Ant and the Grasshopper" explores the fable's symbolism via complex framing.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sopher |first1=H. |title=Somerset Maugham's "The Ant and the Grasshopper": The Literary Implications of Its Multilayered Structure |journal=Studies in Short Fiction |date=1994 |volume=31 |issue=1 (Winter 1994) |pages=109– |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-15356444/somerset-maugham-s-the-ant-and-the-grasshopper |access-date=30 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151114/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-15356444/somerset-maugham-s-the-ant-and-the-grasshopper |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> Other human weaknesses besides improvidence have become identified with the grasshopper's behaviour.<ref name=Klein/> So an unfaithful woman (hopping from man to man) is "a grasshopper" in "Poprygunya", an 1892 short story by [[Anton Chekhov]],<ref name="Loehlin2010">{{cite book |author=Loehlin, James N. |title=The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0BPgUl8-B8C&pg=PA80 |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-49352-9 |pages=80–83}}</ref> and in [[Jerry Paris]]'s 1969 film ''[[The Grasshopper (1970 film)|The Grasshopper]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greenspun |first1=Roger |title=Movie Review: The Grasshopper (1969) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE4DC1538EE34BC4051DFB366838B669EDE |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 April 2015 |date=28 May 1970 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402140742/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE4DC1538EE34BC4051DFB366838B669EDE |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref><ref name="www.museumofflight.org aeronca-l-3b-o-58b-grasshopper">{{cite web |title=Aeronca L-3B Grasshopper |url=http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/aeronca-l-3b-o-58b-grasshopper |publisher=The Museum of Flight |access-date=11 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123034005/http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/aeronca-l-3b-o-58b-grasshopper |archive-date=23 November 2017 }}</ref>

===In mechanical engineering===
[[File:DMM 12236 Halbbalancier-Dampfmaschine.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|A [[grasshopper beam engine]], 1847]]

The name "Grasshopper" was given to the [[Aeronca L-3]] and [[Piper L-4]] light aircraft, both used for [[reconnaissance]] and other support duties in [[World War II]]. The name is said to have originated when Major General [[Innis P. Swift]] saw a Piper making a rough landing and remarked that it looked like a grasshopper for its bouncing progress.<ref name="www.museumofflight.org aeronca-l-3b-o-58b-grasshopper"/><ref>{{cite web |title=L-4 Grasshopper |url=http://ww2db.com/aircraft_spec.php?aircraft_model_id=140 |author=Chen, C. Peter |work=World War II Database |publisher=Lava Development |access-date=11 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525024409/http://ww2db.com/aircraft_spec.php?aircraft_model_id=140 |archive-date=25 May 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Piper L-4 Grasshopper Light Observation Aircraft (1941) |url=http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=332 |publisher=Military Factory |access-date=11 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101103311/http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=332 |archive-date=1 January 2017 }}</ref>

[[Grasshopper beam engine]]s were [[beam engine]]s pivoted at one end, the long horizontal arm resembling the hind leg of a grasshopper. The type was patented by William Freemantle in 1803.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Beam Engine |last=Crowley |first=T.E. |year=1982 |publisher=Senecio |isbn=0-906831-02-4 |pages=95–96}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Grasshopper Beam Engine |url=http://www.animatedengines.com/grasshopper.html |publisher=Animated Engines |access-date=11 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210091100/http://www.animatedengines.com/grasshopper.html |archive-date=10 December 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Dickinson, H.W. |title=A short history of the steam engine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQU6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA108|year=1939 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=108}}</ref>