''Be prepared" is the Boy Scout motto. "Be prepared for what?" someone once asked the Scouts' founder, Robert Baden-Powell. "Why, for any old thing," he replied. For a people raised on that motto, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A farmer is pictured plowing a field in Routt County, Colorado in this 1880s photograph. (Courtesy of Denver Public Library ...

The grasshopper plague that was swirling over Colorado last week brought misfortune to farmers, mischief to tourists, and misery to Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, a Scripps-Howard tabloid (circ.

FARGO — Anyone who has read the Laura Ingalls Wilder or Rose Wilder Lane stories of life on the prairies in the 1870s and 1880s has been struck by the vision of the terrible grasshopper plagues of ...

Grasshoppers are wreaking havoc on western South Dakota rangelands and hayfields this growing season. Many life-long ranchers say they have never seen an infestation this bad. Mid-June SDPB’s Lura ...

Scientists from Washington State University (WSU) and the USDA are predicting a small plague of grasshoppers this summer, the worst in 30 years, concentrated in the West. Last fall USDA scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 19th century, settlers pushing into the American Midwest looked up from their newly planted fields to see a black ...

The specimen arrived in the offices of the Las Animas Leader in a glass bottle in late March 1876, courtesy of a local rancher: a grasshopper, about 1 inch in length, its wings not yet fully grown.