High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ant and the Grasshopper, also known as The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop`s Fables, providing an ambivalent moral lesson about hard work and foresight. In the Perry Index it is number 373. The fable has been adapted or reinterpreted in a number of works from the 19th century to the present.