All grasshoppers begin their lives as eggs. Yet eggs represent the least known stage of the grasshopper life cycle. They are laid in the soil of the habitat and develop hidden from the view of humans.

Depending on where you live and if there's agriculture, farmers will till the soil in the fall and disrupt the grasshopper eggs, which means not as many will come back the following year ...

After mating in summer, females generally deposit clusters of eggs in the soil in structures called egg pods. The size and shape of the egg pod depend on the species of grasshopper. The eggs develop, ...