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

The brain of a solitary desert locust is shown in solid yellow, and the brain of a gregarious locust of the same species in transparent blue at the same magnification. The swarming gregarious ...

The locusts' transition from solitary to gregarious is triggered ... in serotonin concentration in a specific region of the locust's nervous system underlies the behavioral changes that lead ...

The main difference between a regular grasshopper and a locust, DAFF adds, is that “locusts can exist in two different behavioural states (solitary and gregarious), whereas most grasshoppers do ...

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