I have always called them locusts it is what they where called when I was a kid. I love the sound we don't get to many in my part of Kansas I do love them.
Yeah... Grasshoppers.. I have always used the two interchangeably, I guess it's incorrect. But when you are raised a certain way, I suppose you become stubborn...
They are both in the phylum Arthropoda and... *reciting the phrase.... Dear King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti....* Class Insecta.