While it might sound off-putting, insects are a tasty and sustainable source of protein and nutrients. Here are five ...

For chapulines, demand is strong enough to help fuel an entire grasshopper industry. The insects are traditionally farmed in alfalfa fields, where the alfalfa seeds they like to eat give them ...

Valley grasshoppers refused to eat this plant but regularly used it for roosting. The majority of valley grasshoppers spent the night roosting head-up on the main or secondary stems of Russianthistle ...

Pound-for-pound, grasshopper mice are among the fiercest predators in the desert borderlands, and they’re unfazed by venomous ...

One hot summer’s day a Grasshopper sat on a blade of grass enjoying the sunshine. ‘What a fine day,’ he said. ‘The sun’s shining and I’ve got as much grass as I can eat.’ The ...

A Mississippi State University scientist has discovered a hopping treasure trove—16 new species of grasshoppers living in the ...

A spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) feeding on a grasshopper in Tangkoko National Park, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tarsiers have five chitinase genes to digest the high amount of chitin in ...