What Do Grasshoppers Eat? - Feature - TCP

What Do Grasshoppers Eat?

Grasshoppers are an important part of the food chain. Many animals derive their nutrition from them. Frogs, toads, lizards snakes, and several birds feed on grasshoppers. The birds which feed on grasshoppers are blue jays, hawks, and bluebirds. The bigger ground beetles, bees, and wasps also feed on them. Shrews also love them in meals. Therefore, grasshoppers lay a large number of eggs to maintain the balance. Otherwise, the population of grasshoppers would have destroyed whole fields. This would have led to starvation