St. Urho's Day is celebrated every year on March 16. The date, just before St. Patrick's Day, isn't a coincidence.

From pests to prayers: The "Grasshopper Chapel" in Cold Spring, Minnesota, was built in the aftermath of an infestation of Rocky Mountain locusts that devastated the Midwest from 1873 to 1877. The ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Elizabeth Borders discussed the grasshopper plague that devastated the parts of the Midwest from 1874-1876.

Waves of grasshoppers are eyeing irrigated fields and watered lawns for their next meal, experts say. Conditions were just right for the recent grasshopper "plague," according to Sue Blodgett, an ...

Tucson is probably a rest stop for many who pass through on the way east or west, but it seems unlikely the proud residents of the Old Pueblo ever expected millions of grasshoppers would stop here for ...