Nature enthusiast, 10, makes rare find: a pink grasshopper

Like many 10-year-olds, Madeline Landecker is fascinated by insects. At her family’s small farm near Little Rock, Ark., she enjoys watching ants and ladybugs and using a net to capture butterflies. Her friends in the fourth grade call her the “bug expert,” she said. So when Madeline spotted a flash of bright pink on the ground after looking in on her chickens after school on March 14, she stooped down to get a closer look. “Some kids were scared of her, and some of the teachers too,” she said. “Some...