What type of life cycle does a grasshopper have?

Grasshoppers have 3 stages to their life cycle. These are:

* Egg - The eggs spend about 10 months in a dormant stage, normally over the autumn and winter months. * Nymph - This stage takes about 25 to 50 days and results in a fully formed adult grasshopper. The nymph will moult five times during the nymph stage, each is about 5 to 10 day apart. * Adult - The adult normally lives for about 30 days. It takes 14 days for them to become sexually mature and mate, and a further two to three weeks to lay the eggs. After this the adult will die and the life cycle will start again.