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 Asia. Desert locusts typically lead ...

Despite assurance from Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya, the locust menace is far from being brought under control. A locust invasion from Somalia hit Kenya in December last year and has so ...

Markus Knaden is in the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena D-007745, Germany. Catching plague locusts with their own scent Guo et al. identified ...

The Army now has its first prototypes of vehicles that use lasers to track and shoot down aerial threats, including drones.

In a striking demonstration of nature’s resilience, more than 200,000 pink starlings have converged in Xinjiang, China, to combat a severe locust plague that poses a significant threat to the region’s ...

KUSHUHUM, Ukraine (Reuters) -A massive locust invasion is threatening sunflower and other crops in Ukraine's southern regions, largely caused by the war against Russia's invasion that makes it ...

The recent upsurge of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål, 1775) has had an impact on East Africa and the Middle East as far as India. It has affected and slowed down many aspects of the ...