Australian plague locusts are an endemic pest that threatens our agricultural industry, devastating crops, and causing losses of up to $30 million.By ...

When the locusts ate poisoned food, they died in rapid numbers. To this day, poison and pesticides are common tactics against swarms, says Chris Adriaansen, the director of the Australian Plague ...

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Plague locusts A huge swarm of plague locusts in the far north west of Western Australia. locust insect stock videos & royalty-free footage A huge swarm of plague locusts in the far north west of ...

WHEN 25-year-old Betty Greene took off from Los Angeles in a bright red Waco Cabin biplane in February 1946, she could never ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

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 ...

As one of the most powerful pest control experts in the world, I understand the unique danger that deadly plagues of locusts pose and ... In the 1950s, a plague of ugly birds descended upon ...