The northern grasshopper, Melanoplus borealis borealis, ranges widely in the north of North America. The species inhabits both lowland and mountain sites, living in a variety of habitats that range ...

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 ...

Individual variation in features of habitat structure among territories of breeding grasshopper sparrows and savannah sparrows in a southern Wisconsin grassland was examined. Grasshopper sparrow ...

A decade ago, critically endangered Florida grasshopper sparrows, three male and four female chicks, were spirited away from prairie wilderness of south-Central Florida. The abductors were wildlife ...

Researchers have spotted an “exceptionally rare” pink grasshopper near a lake in New Zealand, a discovery that sheds more light on colour-related mutations in insects. The Sigaus robustus is one of ...

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Though it does eat the insect, the sparrows are named for one of its buzzing, grasshopper-like calls. The decline of the Florida grasshopper sparrow began, by most accounts, in the early-to-mid ...

Grasshopper populations of the MacArthur Agro-Ecology Research Center at Lake Placid, in south-central Florida were monitored during the period 1993-1995. Samples were taken monthly during the spring, ...

Walking through fields on a farm near Cascabel as it teemed with grasshoppers was like “parting the Red Sea.” The grasshoppers arrived in early September, and each step among the crops at Sleeping ...

The striped sand grasshopper, Melanoplus foedus, ranges widely in western North America, nearly coextensive with the range of Melanoplus packardii which it closely resembles. The habitats of these two ...