They especially love the warm, dry climate in the Las Vegas Desert and as soon as the scorching summer begins to ease, the ideal temperature of the fall is the perfect time for grasshopper mating season, which brings about generous swarms and swelling choruses.

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Currently, the field grasshopper is the most common one you will find here in the Las Vegas Valley. We are having a current infestation of these in Las Vegas (2022).

Typically, they are not dangerous. They are more of a nuisance when chirping loud into the night and having an appetite for common fabrics.

Yes, Female grasshopper lay about 100 eggs in their lifetime and in a location that is hidden from other male grasshopper who want to destroy them.

Their companions though, will defend their mates, even risking their own lives to protect a female carrying his eggs.

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Other than the desire for your clothes, the grasshoppers are considered omnivores and eating insects, fungi, as well as plant materials.

It is the males who sing and create the sounds with their wings. Each wing has a tiny rasp-like area at the tip. They scrape the top of one wing over the bottom of the other to make that characteristic chirping sound.

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