Inspired by a conversation with Matan Protter, this week’s Express involves a happily hopping grasshopper: A grasshopper is jumping on a number line and starts at its home at zero (i.e., the “origin”) ...

Climate conditions affect grasshopper populations differently each season, and this year’s conditions made for extreme numbers. Grasshoppers spent the winter as eggs in the soil, unaffected by cold ...

Within the bright sweet clover yellowing the Black Hills this summer, you may notice a few more grasshoppers springing and singing. Twostriped grasshoppers feeding on the clover are jumping in ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. --Grasslands and crop fields in Minnesota are hoppin' this month. A summertime insect is thriving, reaching numbers higher than usual. On a stroll through the prairie grass at ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University scientist has discovered a hopping treasure trove—16 new species of grasshoppers living in the thorny scrubs of U.S. and Mexican deserts. Pictured is ...