Understanding the grasshopper life cycle can help explain why we are seeing high numbers of grasshoppers and why they are so difficult to manage. Grasshopper embryos begin to develop within eggs ...

Last year we saw large populations of grasshoppers in El Paso County and across Colorado. While we might hope this year will be different, the grasshoppers will be back in some way. Why is this? The ...

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 ...

Oikos is a journal issued by the Nordic Ecological Society and is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in ecology. Oikos publishes original and innovative research on all aspects of ecology.