Grasshopper kingdom

This week's craze is grasshoppers. They are suddenly everywhere in the yard so Ms Jaz made a grasshopper city.  She used the enclosure she made at school.

Bright and airy enclosure

Grasshoppers basking in the sun.

Lots of grass down the bottom for food, though they seem to prefer sitting up in the sunlight. They're eating and growing and several have shed a skin.

Shed grasshopper skins

They're quieter than crickets, which were last summer's craze.