After months of building, the biggest locust swarm recorded in 70 years swept across 10 countries in East Africa in spring ...

A study recently published in Science has found that classical models of collective behavior fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms—an ecological phenomenon that affects millions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TURKANA, Kenya (Reuters) - The branches on trees around Kenya's northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young locusts. Numbers of ...

IN SOME PARTS of the world, covid-19 is not the only plague that 2020 has brought. In parts of Asia and east Africa, swarms of locusts have stripped fields. The UN reckons the swarms in India and ...