A grasshopper, Melanoplus boulderensis, typical of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. This species matures later in the year, in mid-June. Research ...

Understanding how insect species will respond to climate change is complicated, as a new study finds that some grasshoppers ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to ...

As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to determine how the six-legged ...

Turing patterns offer insight into (among other things) the patterns we find on animals, whether it’s the splotches on ...

I step outside my house, and the chilly November air makes me shiver. Orion the Hunter spills across the night sky, shining ...

One evening, I caught a huge cutthroat trout in a deep, quiet pool using a grasshopper pattern, only to lose an even bigger one as the sun set. One of my favorite parts of my commute is when I ...

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Threatened birds such as the upland sandpiper and the grasshopper sparrow used to nest ... come up with a plan to protect bird migration patterns and the rare animals on the land from the ...

Grasshopper. Image by Skyler Ewing via Pexels If you’ve ... An individual locust will change its behavioral patterns during times of scarcity and disaster, including changes in coloration and diet.