grasshopper

Anne Halpin, at Somerset Wildlife Trust, said the mutation itself is not that rare but people actually finding a pink grasshopper is unusual.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

The researchers partnered with farmers in Senegal who regularly face outbreaks of the Senegalese grasshopper.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2024

The young man said, “I don’t suppose you remember me, Mr. Bowditch. I haven’t been around Salem much for years. I was knee high to a grasshopper when I went to Harvard.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Of the 1.3 million schoolchildren evacuated from cities to the countryside, Mr. Scott writes, many “resorted to eating grasshoppers, snakes, and stream crabs as well as tooth-cleaning powder, paint, and crayons.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Among the more poignant moments, Charles laments the loss of wildlife at Highgrove, noting when he first moved in there nearly five decades ago he would hear cuckoos and see grasshoppers.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Even without locusts, grasshoppers already pose major challenges across the country.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

Insects that chew leaves, such as grasshoppers and caterpillars, suffer the most negative effects, including reduced reproduction and smaller body sizes.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

The Wart felt a man on either side of him take his hand, as they stood in a circle, and then he noticed that the stridulation of the grasshoppers had begun again.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White