All grasshoppers begin their lives as eggs. Yet eggs represent the least known stage of the grasshopper life cycle. They are laid in the soil of the habitat and develop hidden from the view of humans.

Eggs - eggs are light brown. Average egg length ... longipennis is the most destructive of range grasshoppers (Shotwell, 1941). Outbreaks follow drought and subside when precipitation is above normal ...

Grasshoppers lay their eggs in the ground in the late summer or early fall and die when the colder weather sets in. Their eggs will last through the winter and hatch in the spring or summer.