What’s new: A recent study has identified 16 new-to-science species of grasshoppers living in the deserts of the U.S. and ...

The redlegged grasshopper, Melanoplus femurrubrum (DeGeer), ranges over most of North America except for high mountain altitudes and the frigid north. It is the most widely distributed species of the ...

Q: What can I do to keep grasshoppers out of my garden? They are really destructive!

Leslie Weinsheim Grasshoppers are part of the Orthoptera order and the Acrididae infraorder. In North America, there are over 550 species of grasshoppers and most really don’t damage plants or ...

Rapp said he became interested in grasshoppers in 2020 and started doing more research on Appalachia hebardi, only to learn it was listed as possibly extinct. But he said the species had been ...

as well as application to other species that behave collectively 3. A grasshopper husbandry room must be equipped to prevent escape. To this end, our grasshoppers are maintained in an interior ...

The differential grasshopper, Melanoplus differentialis (Thomas), ranges widely in North America. Originally restricted to tall herbaceous vegetation growing in wet meadows, swales, and creek bottom ...