If you've seen them, you'd know them: they're Eastern lubber grasshoppers. Maybe the name doesn't sound familiar, but the ...

Grasshoppers normally have a population boom that happens every two to four years. Diseases and predators will take out a portion of the grasshoppers, and the climate will determine the rest.

Adults of the bigheaded grasshopper may disperse to new habitats, but most often they remain in the same area where the nymphs hatched and developed. There they feed, mature, reproduce, and eventually ...

Predators can increase diversity in communities ... Similarly, predation by spiders on grasshoppers decreases grazing on plants in the fields of New England and predation by planktivorous fish ...

The valley grasshopper is a rangeland species, inhabiting the sagebrush-grass and other semiarid associations of the west. Native host plants include springparsley, balsamroot, big sagebrush, and ...

Researchers found that replacing wild animals with domestic livestock can affect spiders and other small predators that balance the ecology by feeding on blood-sucking ticks and mites and leaf-eating ...