Who knew there were more grasshopper species in Florida? Derek Woller did, and he found them. Why are grasshoppers important?

This immaculately camouflaged grasshopper was last seen in 1946. Appalachian field zoologist Andrew Rapp has been finding and identifying grasshoppers for years. As The News & Observer reported, he ...

In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. No one knew then that this moment would mark the only sighting of a species that would soon be considered ...

The Monte Gordo grasshopper (Eyprepocprifas insularis) has proved to be a rare and elusive species: its last, and, until now, the only sighting was a single specimen found in 1980. This is why ...

Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours hunched over looking through brush and scouring the short grass on the side of the road until he locked eyes with a creature once believed to be extinct. He had ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. By studying the physical characteristics of these grasshoppers, from the shapes and sizes to the colors of their body parts, the researcher found ...

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 ...

Pictured is Agroecotettix silverheelsi, a newly described grasshopper from Texas named in honor of Jay Silverheels, an early Native American actor. Mississippi State’s JoVonn Hill, director of the ...