Ricardo Tepale Arévalo, 20, and other hunters search for grasshoppers in a field in Mexico's Puebla-Tlaxcala valley. (Luis Antonio Rojas / For The Times) The men and boys gathered in the early morning ...

Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards ...

Pictured is Agroecotettix silverheelsi, a newly described grasshopper from Texas named in honor of Jay Silverheels, an early Native American actor. Mississippi State’s JoVonn Hill, director of the ...

Children scamper in the bush, jumping here and there to catch grasshoppers before they fly away. On a good day, many will walk away with plastic bags filled with the insects to fry and eat as a snack.

Members of Garcia’s family have been catching grasshoppers around Santa Maria Zacatepec for at least three generations. Hunters also sell their daily catch to the family, and Garcia and his relatives ...