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great green bush cricket

Grasshoppers vs. crickets: What's the difference?

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Combo photo of the Great Green Bush Cricket (top) and the Elegant Grasshopper (bottom).

What’s the Difference Between a Grasshopper and a Cricket?

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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

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Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere

Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?

Portrait of a mountain gorilla at a short distance. gorilla close up portrait.The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species

Happy, smiling, flying pig

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

Berries and leaves of the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) plant. Poisonous plant

7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants

Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg

Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game

long-horned grasshopper: Media

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Grasshoppers vs. crickets: What's the difference?

Grasshoppers vs. crickets: What's the difference?

One makes music. One gives advice in Pinocchio. Which is which?

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great green bush cricket

great green bush cricket

Great green bush cricket (Tettigonia viridissima).

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