During these invasions, desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) eat their own weight in food every day. The biblical-scale plague ate through 160,000,000 kilograms of food a day — enough to feed ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research is reshaping our understanding of one of nature’s most stunning yet destructive phenomena —  massive swarms of desert locusts.

Tunisia's Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed that small numbers of desert locusts have entered the Dhehiba region in ...

Experts think cockroach brains could be the best ingredient for fighting superinfections in humans. While cockroaches themselves may make our skin crawl, what’s inside them could hold the key to ...

This time, they obtained exclusive coverage of the next wave of young locusts now bulking up in Somalia’s desert. Officials in charge of the United Nations’ response to the locust outbreak couldn’t ...

Southern Libya is facing a severe agricultural crisis due to a surge in desert locust swarms, posing a significant threat to ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the livelihood of one in ten people due to their impact on food security.

Dec. 19, 2024 — A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and ...

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 ...

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 ...