USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced Monday that it will provide eight states with an additional $2.8 million for suppressing high grasshopper and Mormon cricket populations. A ...

PHOENIX – It’s not as ominous as the grasshopper swarm that descended on Las Vegas recently, but the Phoenix area is experiencing a critter invasion of its own. Actually, it’s normal to see an ...

Crickets and grasshoppers are relatively small insects with huge hind legs for catapulting themselves to escape danger. They are both very short-lived, with their lifespan lasting nearly six months.

Driving down a windy canyon road in northern Oregon rangeland, Jordan Maley and April Aamodt are on the look out for Mormon crickets - giant insects that can ravage crops. "There's one right there," ...

PHOENIX - Grasshoppers have quickly become a common sight in the Valley, but why? "A lot of rain has brought a lot of activity into the Phoenix area and probably across the state of Arizona," said ...

Is this an unusual occurrence or summer status quo? Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an abundance of grasshoppers emerging from my lawn, pastures, and fields! Additionally, some of my neighbors ...