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 ...

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 ...

Early food plants, tumble mustard and downy brome, had matured and dried and only Russianthistle remained green. Valley grasshoppers refused to eat this plant but regularly used it for roosting. 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 ...

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

The Gonzales (Texas) Inquirer says : "The grasshoppers, having about completed ... dead one there are half-a-dozen live ones around it, eating it up." It is thus that there is a limit placed ...