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 ...

Anyone who has read the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books has been struck by the vision of the terrible grasshopper plagues of that time. These accounts are based in fact. Huge grasshopper ...

Despite this wet summer, cicadas have been singing in our back yard for several weeks now. Because there are not too many, I consider them benign and even find their strident buzzing quite pleasing.