Most grasshoppers can fly and some, notably locusts, can travel thousands of kilometers. However, there is a whole family of grasshoppers in Australia that can't fly at all, and they are not very good ...
Plant species composition is critically important for herbivores. For example, changes in plant community composition can strongly affect grasshopper biology, including nutrition, development, growth, ...
The green–brown polymorphism of grasshoppers and bush-crickets represents one of the most penetrant polymorphisms in any group of organisms. This poses the question of why the polymorphism is shared ...