Grasshoppers are comical-looking bugs with massive jumping legs and wings that help them sail away from you or another danger. How great would it be to simply glide away from people you didn’t want to ...

The grasshoppers eat lettuce, beans, corn, carrots, onions and some annual flowers, the Place County news release said. However, the bugs tend to leave tomatoes and squash alone.

Cooked grasshopper, meanwhile, contains up to 60 percent protein with just 6 percent fat. Moreover, like fish, insect fatty acids are unsaturated and thus healthier.

Grasshoppers are abundant in Pueblo this time of year. ... "When their food source dries up they move into crops and it's sad seeing them eat the pepper plants like that," Crites said, ...

• Beneficial insect predators such as blister beetles, robber flies, wasps and birds will eat grasshoppers. A wide variety of plants will provide habitat and attract birds and beneficial insects.