After months of building, the biggest locust swarm recorded in 70 years swept across 10 countries in East Africa in spring ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature ... people due to their impact on food security. Swarms begin when flightless juveniles aggregate ...

New research is reshaping our understanding of one of nature's most stunning yet destructive phenomena -- massive locust swarms moving together. New research published in Science is reshaping our ...

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 Navy's new LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology) launchers fire a swarm of drones that can jam enemy communications, and waste enemy resources by drawing fire. The launchers are capable of ...

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 ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A swarm of locusts feeds on shrubs at Archers Post, in Samburu County. The locusts have ...

Salah Moawad, head of the agricultural services sector at Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture, made a public statement four days ago denying news that swarms of locusts have caused damage to crops.