They were giant grasshoppers, or little bitty manikins with great big brainy heads and no hair.
Kickback is the name of an Insecticon who turns into a giant mechanical grasshopper.
The 1957 film Beginning of the End featured mutated giant grasshoppers attacking Chicago.
He wondered, specifically, how far a giant grasshopper could hop, were he to put his foot to its rear.
You remember that strain of giant grasshoppers they found in Colorado?
For a moment the creature looked like a giant grasshopper that has seized some smaller insect.
Then he spotted a giant grasshopper on the turf.
He rides a giant mechanical grasshopper and can control bees and other insects to use as weapons.
But they were big enough to allow for the shoulder holsters and still have enough flare from the side vents to look like giant grasshoppers.
During the third book, he is sprayed with poison in the face by a giant grasshopper, severely damaging his face.