OT, what do you call the stealth insects?

mm · 2010-09-19T05:22:12+00:00

OT, what do you call the stealth insects?The ones that look like stealth airplanes, stealth bombers, exceptwithout the wings (Their wings are usually folded compactly).Almost 1/2 inch long, brown, no segments, that is, no waist or neck.They don't have curved sides or edges, just straight edges and flatsurfaces.The front edges are two lines that make an angle of maybe 140 degrees,with the obtuse point at their "nose".Then two more edges gradually narrowing to the rear, And then two more edges, narrowing very sharply, ending in an obtusepoint at the rear end.Plus 6 legs. They fly but not well. There are more around here than every before, a few inside my house noless, and I'd like to learn more about them, so I need to know whatthey are called. Thanks

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Don Klipstein 16 years ago

It does appear to me that "krw" was talking about a few species of grasshoppers in the family "acrididae" being "the usual locusts" that migrate in plagues to eat every green farm plant for at least a mile around.

Though I have heard of cicadas mentioned as above, that is a distant secondary usage of referring to a non-grasshopper insect as a locust.

Every locust in the Bible was a grasshopper.

What does this have to do with insects?

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