Locust plagues pose a significant threat to global agriculture, economies and the environment. Current control methods rely ...

Is a plague of locusts next? What to know about the 17-year cicadas about to arrive By Kathleen Borrelli/Staff Writer Apr 29, 2021 0 1 of 2 ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientist Kang Le has won the 2021 Silverstein-Simeone Award, an international prize recognizing scientists for their outstanding work at the frontiers of chemical ecology, the ...

Long ago, I learned speed-eating to fit junior high yearbook editing into my lunch break. My first two dates with my wife ...

A team of zoologists, molecular engineers and pest control specialists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a ...

Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with drought, and in some cases with locust plagues. Wildfires set new ...

Locust swarms are one of nature’s most destructive phenomena. Under favorable conditions, locusts form large groups, known as swarms, that can devastate entire regions. These swarms can grow so ...

A framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and large-scale dispersal. PLOS Computational Biology, 2024; 20 (12): e1012562 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012562 ...

Desperate Egyptians were even forced to burn tires to ward off these fearless insects. Another outbreak happened back in 2004 when locusts migrated from Northern Africa and were able to reach Portugal ...

With all the news stories about Cicadas and how Brood X is hatched in 2021, a lot of you probably have black, buzzing swarms of bugs on the brain! If you’re worried about Cicadas being like the ...

This, according to members of the NRC, would have enabled the ministry to detect and perhaps avert an invasion by red locusts (Nomadacris Septemfasciata).

Inverse explains the science behind Netflix's bloody sci-fi thriller, The Swarm, in which a single mother discovers her locusts can feast on human blood.