There was an ass which was listening to the happy chirping of the grasshoppers enquired what they ate in order to get such a beautiful voice and the answer was dew. The ass also ate only dew since then and died soon of hunger. This simple story can teach lots of life and management lessons to those who are willing to learn from them.

Entomologists place grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, and mantises in a single order, the Orthoptera, while cicadas belong to the order Homoptera. But modern taxonomies do not necessarily reflect popular perception of animals today, much less the ways in which creatures have been regarded over the centuries.