Step into a patch of overgrown grass or prairie, and you’ll likely trigger a popcorn-like frenzy of jumping insects. Late August and early September can be peak times to study grasshoppers, katydids ...

Rodents are usually stereotyped as furtive, gnawing, crop and foodstuff spoiling, small mammals with few redeeming qualities, and I would wager, if asked to describe a mouse, many people’s model would ...

To a zoologist, the leap of the grasshopper is one of the wonders of the world. An adult grasshopper can leap ten times its length in the high jump, 20 times its length in the broad jump. A man up to ...