Bush Cricket Grasshopper, Melamoplus Differentials Interesting Behaviors: Grashoppers may feed on many types of plants but some may be very fussy and feed on grass or selected species of plants. Courtship of grasshoppers are melodious! To attract its mate, each grasshopper composes its individual song, produced by rubbing their lower back legs to create either a chirping or a clicking sound (known as stridulation). Females seem more shy and sing more softly than males, this is one way to differentiate their gender and now you know why there are always all the clicking sounds at night when walking past a field :) After mating some male species of grasshoppers may die and some females die after laying the eggs.
Golden Web Spider, Nephila Maculata
The colour of the spider's big web gave the spider its common name, its web measuring about 3 feet in diameter. The females of the Golden Orb spiders reach an imposing 45mm (nearly 2 inches) body length but they are basically harmless. Commonly encountered in the Wet Tropics, the Golden Orb Spiders can also be seen around buildings.
Giant African Snail, Achatina Fulica
Snails move by alternating body contractions with stretching, with a proverbially low speed. They produce mucusin order to aid locomotion by reducing friction. The mucus also reduces the snail's risk of injury. Snails range greatly in size. The largest land snail is the Ghana Tiger Snail , which can measure up to 30 cm. Giant Apple snail, is the largest freshwater snail, with a diameter of up to 15 cm with a mass of 600g.
Butterfly
Ants
Ants use their antenae not only for touch, but also for their sense of smell. Adult ants cannot chew and swallow solid food. Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. Ants are clean and tidy insects.
Some worker ants are given the job of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting it outside in a special rubbish dump! Each colony of ants has its own smell. In this way, intruders can be recognized immediately.
Garden Slug
Slugs do have a hidden shell that is located under the mantle of its body.As burrowers and surface feeders, the garden slugs attack both leaf and root crops. Typically they attack at ground level, severing the stems of young beans or marrow plants for example. They will also climb up and attack the heads of cauliflowers and many other plants or burrow down to eat the roots of turnips or beetroot. It is a major pest of potatoes attacking both tubers and foliage and has been known to penetrate the soil to as much as a yard's depth so nothing is safe from this slug.
Spiders
Several different types of silk may be used in web construction, including a "sticky" capture silk, or with "fluffy" capture silk, depending on the type of spider. Webs may be in a vertical plane (most orb webs), a horizontal plane (sheet webs), or at any angle in between. Most commonly found in the sheet-web spider families, some webs will have loose, irregular tangles of silk above them. These tangled obstacle courses serve to disorient and knock down flying insects, making them more vulnerable to being trapped on the web below. They may also help to protect the spider from predators.