Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working ...
"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 ...
The Global Locust Initiative, part of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, examines locusts within the broader ...
Arizona State University scientists are part of an international research team that discovered a simple, soil-based method to ...
A locust in a “solitarious” phase is shy. It acts like a regular grasshopper: avoiding others of its kind, appearing a ...
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Scientists working to eradicate the species of desert locust that ravages crops in biblical proportions are focusing their efforts on females that generally only ...
It’s been a tough year around the world. When it seemed like things couldn’t get any worse, locust swarms started making headlines for wreaking havoc in East Africa, the Middle East and India. For ...