Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...
As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to ...
Scientists used 65-year-old grasshopper collections to uncover how climate change affects insect sizes, revealing which ...
A grasshopper, Melanoplus boulderensis, typical of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. This species matures later in the year, in mid-June. Research ...
As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to determine how the six-legged ...
He not only collected and mounted the specimens from plots in the Rocky Mountains near Boulder but also documented the timing of six different life stages of the grasshoppers. His death in a plane ...