The damage to crops was estimated at $8.5 billion (€8.1 billion) in a region where 23 million people face severe food insecurity. During these invasions, desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) eat ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the livelihood of one in ten people due to their impact on food security.

Watch the full episode here. Locusts have huge appetites. One of these insects can eat its own weight in food in a single day. And they're devastating crops in East Africa, where millions of ...

The whole is now brought together in a connected and systematic form, and we have in it a very complete and valuable treatise on the different kinds of locusts, whether species or varieties ...

A new study by researchers has found that brown locusts are carriers of harmful yeasts that can cause infections in humans.

The sheer volume of the number of cicadas expected to appear has many people comparing them to locusts and wondering what the differences are. Here are the answers to those questions. Fortunately ...

Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) are normally solitary insects, but in crowded conditions, they undergo physical and behavioral changes and become 'gregarious', clustering in swarms that can ...

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New research is reshaping our understanding of one of nature’s most stunning yet destructive phenomena —  massive swarms of desert locusts.

Tunisia's Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed that small numbers of desert locusts have entered the Dhehiba region in ...

They had been researching and tracking vast numbers of desert locusts swarming across northern Kenya and a new generation was now hatching in Turkana, Kenya's poorest region. We had to mobilise ...

Good morning, saints! Today, I bring to you a word that may sound like a home renovation gone wrong: locusts, fire and a plumb line. Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? Like ...