Natural Selection of Grasshoppers

There is a struggle for existence for grasshoppers because they lay many eggs. Some of these eggs will die while some may hatch from their eggs but will live shortly due to competition of resources and other factors. Those individuals that will survive will have varied traits such as body coloring (green and yellow). The green grasshoppers will camouflage well to the grasses, thus making them the fittest to survive, while the yellow grasshoppers are more vulnerable to predators, which leaves the more green grasshoppers to produce the next generation of individuals. Over time, green grasshoppers will be more common compared to yellow grasshoppers.