What are these tiny black grasshoppers I see in my garden? They think my flowers are a smorgasbord! Ah, yes, it is that time of year again. The Easter Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea microptera) is ...

Well, maybe they aren't this big at life-size. A romalea microptera, better known as the eastern lubber grasshopper, clings to a bush at the Plaza Pines Mobile Home Park in Clearwater. Known for ...

With its robust body and spindly legs, the eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera) certainly lives up to its name. Its size (6 to 8 cm) and its coloration makes it the most distinctive of ...

Romalea guttata Houttuyn (= R. microptera Beavois) is flightless, lethargic, aposematic, and chemically defended. R. guttata stores large quantities of two adipokinetic hormone (AKH) family peptides ...