HOUSTON — An alert keeper in the Houston Zoo's Bug House recently noticed that a grasshopper was having trouble holding its head level. When the Peruvian jumping stick, which are stick-like ...

At a time when nearly a million animal and plant species are slipping towards extinction, at least one endangered insect has ...

Almost 400 native species of grasshoppers inhabit the Western United States, though only a small fraction (about 12 species) are considered pests. Grasshoppers compete with cattle and other herbivores ...

The pasture on Gerald Chacon’s ranch looks like it has been mowed too close, he said, with bare patches of ground showing. Grasshoppers stripped the soil, Chacon said. For about a year, the Rio Arriba ...