In Colombia it is a way to call green crickets and green lobsters. Grasshoppers, jumps, jumpers, green crickets, lobsters, chapolas. It is also a disrespectful and derogatory way to call police officers, because of the color of their uniforms. They are very voracious insects and consumers of foliage. Its scientific name is Tettigonia viridissima and belong to the family Tettigoniidae .