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Keywords: chemical requirements of Acridoidea, chemicals for growth and survival, chemicals for reproduction, amino acids, nitrogen, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, chemicals for defense and coloration, sequestering host-plant chemicals for defense, phagostimulation by nutrient chemicals, sugars, starch, phospholipids, regulation of meal size, phagostimulation by non-nutrient chemicals, Locusta migratoria, Schistocerca gregaria, Melanoplus bivittatus, chemicals acting as sign stimuli, host plant selection, food selection by graminivorous Acridoidea, reduction in the amount eaten in one meal on seedling grass compared to mature grass, role of deterrents, nutrition, phytochemistry and the evolution of Acridoid feeding patterns, feeding habits, schematic representation of evolutionary changes in feeding habits, coevolution of Acridoidea and plants