Knowledge of the nervous system that fires the grasshopper’s jumping muscles may lead to an effective insecticide. For science and the sheer fun of it, Zoologist Graham Hoyle of the University ...

APHIS, a highly secretive agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, oversees and funds the application of multiple pesticides on rangelands to prevent native grasshoppers and Mormon crickets ...

Hernandez found that APHIS violated the law by focusing only on spraying insecticides to suppress grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, and that the agency “ignores any pest management techniques other ...

RAAT is a method of integrated pest management (IPM) for rangeland grasshoppers, in which the rate of insecticide is reduced from traditional levels, and untreated swaths (refuges) are alternated with ...

It’s been difficult to get it back. There are several methods used to prevent the proliferation of grasshoppers, such as certain pesticides that can be sprayed in their infant stage. But those ...