But the swarm movement is ultimately dictated by individual locusts reacting to their nearest neighbors. Desert locusts, one of 20 locust species, undergo a dramatic transformation called locust ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest locust monitoring bulletin reports that they have found solitary desert ...

Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced today that the country has heightened its preparedness levels following the detection ...

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.

Tarqi, spokesman for the National Committee for Combating Desert Locusts, has confirmed the spread of locust swarms, which ...

Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) are normally solitary insects, but in crowded conditions, they undergo physical and behavioral changes and become 'gregarious', clustering in swarms that can ...

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Greg Sword, Ph.D., studies desert locusts and other swarming insects like crickets and is a researcher in the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute at Texas A&M University. New research provides a ...

Since December, billions of desert locusts have ravaged crops, decimated pasture and threatened the livelihoods of more than 20 million people in East Africa. Follow the latest developments here.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization issued an alert for Algeria, Libya and Tunisia against groups of desert locusts. The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during ...