Most people are familiar with the popular fable commonly attributed to Aesop, "The Ant and the Grasshopper". The ants work tirelessly through the summer collecting and storing food to last them ...

Sam Sacks’s review of “Aesop’s Fables” (Books, Nov. 2) brings to mind a modern twist on an old classic: In the summer, the ants worked and saved, while the grasshoppers played. The ants warned that ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

Earlier this month, scientists described what they believe to be the world’s first fossil of prehistoric grasshopper eggs. The grapefruit-sized fossil containing more than 50 grasshopper eggs was ...

An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper pleads with the ant for shelter and is turned away to ...