It was the case of one good story leading to another. After its shocking report Jan. 25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking ...

A swarm can eat enough food to feed 34 million people in just one day. And within a year, the locusts destroyed over 170,000 acres of land in Somalia and Ethiopia — where people rely on crops ...

There's a good reason locusts are considered plague-worthy. Despite their size, swarms of these insects can cause considerable damage by shredding plant life to bits like ravenous piranhas..

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 ...

The locusts are breeding and forming new swarms in the Horn of Africa, The Times of Israel reported, citing Locust Watch, part of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations.

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The worst desert locust outbreak in a generation has been decimating crops and other vegetation across the Horn of Africa. Since January, Kenya Ethiopia, and Somalia have been battling to contain the ...

FOR the past three years an organised effort has been made by the Governments of the South African colonies to destroy the swarms of locusts that from time to time invade the cultivated districts ...

An Ethiopian airliner (Pictured) was on Thursday diverted to Addis Ababa Airport after colliding with a swarm of locust midair. The plane, Boeing 737-700, registration ET-ALN performing flight ET ...

[Christopher Kipsang, Standard] A new wave of locust swarms is spreading in West Pokot County which could precipitate a food crisis. The pests have ravaged acres of maize and beans in Pokot North ...

Chinese factories are producing thousands of tonnes of a "green zombie fungus" to help fight the swarms of locusts plaguing east Africa. Metarhizium is a genus of fungi with nearly 50 species ...