Between their lips is a pair of sharp jaws called mandibles and behind the mandibles is another pair of jaws with feelers that taste and eat grass. Grasshoppers live in grassy areas and in fields. Their green and brown colors camouflage them, but their enemies see them when they move. Grasshoppers cannot see well in the long grass where they like to live. They use a sound to find other grasshoppers.
Males attract females by making singing noises that sounds like chirping.
This also warns other males to stay away from their patch of grass. The female grasshoppers stores eggs inside her abdomen. The female clings to a stalk of grass while the male climbs on her back. The male squirts special liquid into her abdomen to fertilize her eggs. The mating can take several hours.