"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 ...

There's a good reason locusts are considered plague-worthy. Despite their size, swarms of these insects can cause considerable damage by shredding plant life to bits like ravenous piranhas.. The bugs ...

A locust in a “solitarious” phase is shy. It acts like a regular grasshopper: avoiding others of its kind, appearing a ...

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 about locusts.As the ...

STORY: Crops in Ukraine's southern regions are under attack from locusts... that are breeding in inaccessible areas near the frontline. The insects are capable of devastating crops in days, and ...

New research published in Science is reshaping our understanding of one of nature’s most stunning yet destructive phenomena — massive locust swarms moving together. A team of researchers, including ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the livelihood of one in ten people due to their impact on food security.