A well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

A portion of the 13,000 grasshoppers collected by the late Gordon Alexander of CU Boulder. The 65-year-old grasshoppers were compared with contemporary insects to assess the effect of climate ...

Members of the original team surveying for grasshoppers below the Flatirons outside Boulder, Colorado, between 1958 and 1960. The initial grasshopper survey was led by Gordon Alexander of CU Boulder.

Figure 1. Grasshopper collection sites in Wyoming. Most of the collections were made during the Adult Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Survey conducted in support of the Cooperative Grasshopper ...