Cannibalism is probably not a trait you associate with crickets — remember the cute, waistcoated Jiminy? — but then again, Mormon crickets aren’t your typical backyard critters. A study published by ...

Common name - Mormon cricket (Anderson, 1941). Geographic distribution - west of the Missouri River to the Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges and from the Canadian border south to California and ...

A Brigham Young University junior molecular biology major has sequenced the mitochondrial genome of the "Mormon cricket," the insect said to have scourged Utah's early settlers' crops until the ...

The dry-weight composition of the diets of richardson ground squirrels (Citellus richardsonii), mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex), and six species of grasshoppers (Xanthippus corallipes, Circotettix ...

As the Anabrus Simplex, more commonly referred to as “Mormon Crickets,” make their reappearance in Clark County, Jefferson County Extension Agronomist Joseph Sagers encourages farmers and private ...

Mormon Crickets have once again infiltrated the streets in Spencer. Known in the scientific community as the Anabrus Simplex, these crickets have often retained a tendency to boom in population and ...

Mormon crickets are washing over Rio Blanco county in waves. “They go in swarms,” said Linda Masters, executive director for the county’s Colorado State University extension office. “So you'll be ...

Elko, Nevada, is playing host to a real life horror movie scenario. The town is experiencing a substantial invasion of Mormon crickets. Thankfully, the imposing ...

Stephen J. Simpson and colleagues have a gory story to tell (Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.0508915103; 2006). They investigated the factors that ...

A few unlucky crickets will become unwitting informants this summer. Agricultural researchers in the United States have fitted them with radio tags equal to half of their body weight to track their ...