Arizona State University scientists are part of an international research team that discovered a simple, soil-based method to ...
The Global Locust Initiative, part of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, examines locusts within the broader ...
"They're very destructive when there's a lot of them, but one-on-one, what's not to love?" says Arianne Cease. She's talking ...
A locust in a “solitarious” phase is shy. It acts like a regular grasshopper: avoiding others of its kind, appearing a ...
Cicadas are getting ready to descend on Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio like a plague of locusts. The latest 17-year brood, Brood XIV, may only be a couple of weeks away from emerging this spring. When ...
Locust swarms are particularly hard to defend against because they occur unexpectedly, and scientists have not had much luck predicting when or where they will happen. According to new evidence ...
It's planting season in Kenya's Turkana region - but instead of growing, farmers like Victor Juma are seeing their crops destroyed by a new swarm of locusts. "These are the tomatoes that have been ...
KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious ...
The propensity of locusts to form huge swarms and blanket landscapes may have evolved as a strategy to disrupt foraging by predators such as small mammals, lizards, and birds, according to research ...