Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest locust monitoring bulletin reports that they have found solitary desert ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the ...

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 ...

ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Desert locust swarms have been detected in five regions and one city administration across Ethiopia, an official said Saturday. Speaking at a press conference to ...

Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something—like intense rainfall—triggers them to swarm in vast numbers, often with devastating consequences. This migratory pest can reach ...

But the swarm movement is ultimately dictated by individual locusts reacting to their nearest neighbors. Desert locusts, one of 20 locust species, undergo a dramatic transformation called locust ...

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said a statement from the FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Western Region (CLCPRO) on Tuesday. Groups of adults and small swarms arrived in central Algeria, western Libya ...

Since December, billions of desert locusts have ravaged crops, decimated pasture and threatened the livelihoods of more than 20 million people in East Africa. Follow the latest developments here.

Wilson was not involved in the study but did write a companion piece to the study that also appears today in __Current Biology__.Desert locusts exist in two phenotypic forms -- the green, cryptic form ...