Have you ever watched a grasshopper jumping from plant to plant in a field? Maybe you’ve seen a grasshopper sitting on a flower in your backyard garden. It’s definitely not unusual, considering there ...

A team of engineers from the University of Illinois has published the first known study documenting the long-jumping motion of 3D-printed insect-scale robots. “To my knowledge, this is the first time ...

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

Within the bright sweet clover yellowing the Black Hills this summer, you may notice a few more grasshoppers springing and singing. Twostriped grasshoppers feeding on the clover are jumping in ...

Once upon a time, around 2010 or so, there lived a hardworking ant and a carefree grasshopper. The grasshopper was hopping to his heart’s content one sunny morning when the ant trudged by, bearing a ...

HOUSTON — An alert keeper in the Houston Zoo's Bug House recently noticed that a grasshopper was having trouble holding its head level. When the Peruvian jumping stick, which are stick-like ...