Museum Collections and Notes Lead to the Rediscovery of a Grasshopper Not Seen in 60 Years
By Derek A. Woller On May 12, 2015, JoVonn G. Hill and I fulfilled an eight-year-long odyssey to locate a grasshopper species endemic to the sandhills of the state of […]
The Origin of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets: A New Study Resolves the Evolutionary Tree of the Orthoptera
By looking at DNA sequences, scientists described the likely evolutionary relationships between grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera)
Examination of Museum Specimens Reveals Four New Bush Cricket Species
Museums of natural history are an important source for finding new insect species. Sometimes species lie on shelves or in drawers for years and years, waiting to be discovered. For […]