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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have rediscovered an endangered grasshopper species in KwaZulu-Natal, underscoring the importance of small ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

Have you ever watched a grasshopper jumping from plant to plant in a field? Maybe you’ve seen a grasshopper sitting on a flower in your backyard garden. It’s definitely not unusual, considering there ...