Ventral nerve cord function in grasshoppers?

The ventral nerve cord, as its name suggests, is a cord of nervous tissue that runs the length of the animal in the lower part of its body. Grasshoppers are segmented animals, and each segment is controlled by its own ganglion. A ganglion is a package of neurons, containing anything from a few dozen to hundreds of thousands of neurons. The ganglia of each segment are joined to their neighbours by the interganglionic connectives(although some ganglia are fused directly together). Thus the ventral nerve cord consists of this chain of linked ganglia. http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wjh/jumping/motorsys.htm