Figure 1: The Anatomy of The Grasshoppers

In this report It will be stated that what we did and what we learned during specified two-week period.
This week, background research was conducted to help us in the further processes of our project. In
the same process, we determined which animal we would work on. Although we thought that the
animals we will work on should be mammals, we thought that it would be more productive to work on
animals with more primal communication skills, and we conducted research on this. After our research,
we decided that the animals we would study would be grasshoppers.
This idea also allowed the project to become a project that could help society in the future. Because
when grasshoppers cannot be controlled, the fields they invade can cause billions of dollars of damage
to countries around the world. In the continuation of this process, we searched for background
information about the animal, grasshoppers, and read articles on this subject. There were three main
topics that were important to us in our research. The rest of the report will include our research on
these main topics.
First of these topics was the anatomy of the grasshoppers
(Figure 1: The anatomy of the grasshoppers)
Grasshopper anatomy is similar to the anatomy of all other insects. The three main bodies of
grasshoppers.
It has parts - the head, thorax and abdomen. They have six jointed legs, two pairs of wings, and two
antennae. Their bodies are covered with a hard exoskeleton. Grasshoppers breathe through a series
of holes on the sides of the body called 'spiracles'. Most grasshoppers are green, brown or olive green.
The largest Grasshoppers are about 4.5 inches (11.5 centimeters) long. Their legs are long hind legs
used for jumping and jumping. The short front legs are used for holding prey and for walking.
This information will be used in the future to monitor the behavior of the grasshopper with a camera.
We believe that knowing the background of the body parts will help us a lot in future image processing,
especially since the animal we follow is the grasshopper.
The second topic was about the communication of the grasshoppers.

We have investigated the details of this topic in detail as it will be useful to us when receiving and
processing the received signals later on. However, we realized that since the communication of
grasshoppers contains a lot of mathematical background, we need to search the articles on this subject
specifically for our purpose.
However, we learned the following about the collective grasshoppers’ communication in general,
revealing that locusts communicate with neighboring grasshoppers at least twice before deflecting.
The larger the grasshopper swarm, the more likely it is to stay on its course. We also learned that the
sound signals that grasshoppers make for communication occur differently in males and females.[1]
We thought these topics would help us in the signal processing process in the future. We also learned
that the noise in these signals and the pauses between the signals are very critical for communication.
Third of these topics was the habitat of the grasshoppers. Since the information about the habitat of
the grasshoppers will be very detailed, we only made a superficial research on this subject and we
decided to leave this issue for the next week and do research in line with the meetings we will hold.
References
[1]A. STUMPNER, B. RONACHER, and O. VON HELVERSEN, “Auditory Interneurones in the Metathoracic
Ganglion of the Grasshopper Chorthippus Biguttulus: II. Processing of Temporal Patterns of the Song
of the Male,” Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 158, no. 1, pp. 411–430, Jul. 1991, doi:
10.1242/jeb.158.1.411.
[2]D. von Helversen, R. Balakrishnan, and O. von Helversen, “Acoustic communication in a duetting
grasshopper: receiver response variability, male strategies and signal design,” Animal Behaviour, vol.
68, no. 1, pp. 131–144, Jul. 2004, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.10.020.

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In this report It will be stated that what we did and what we learned during specified two-week period.

First of these topics was the anatomy of the grasshoppers

(Figure 1: The anatomy of the grasshoppers)

The second topic was about the communication of the grasshoppers.

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