A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. Federal agriculture officials are ...

Little rainfall and high temperatures were already taking a toll on Craig French’s northern Montana rangeland. Then, grasshoppers took out half his pasture land, starting with the clover and alfalfa ...

A federal judge has ordered USDA to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of its grasshopper and Mormon cricket suppression program in the West within two years. The agency’s Animal and Plant Health ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. Federal ...

The USDA’s pesticide spraying program for crickets and grasshoppers across the West violated the National Environmental Policy Act, according to a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez ...

Almost 400 native species of grasshoppers inhabit the Western United States, though only a small fraction (about 12 species) are considered pests. Grasshoppers compete with cattle and other herbivores ...