TEL AVIV — Israel’s Negev Desert is alive – with locusts. Huge swarms of the newly hatched critters have begun marching across the sand, devouring everything in their path. With the help of high-tech ...

They did it under cover of darkness: mothers, fathers, grandparents, children. Only at night are the locusts still and silent, their thick, yellow bodies roosting on whatever trees, crops, and grasses ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS • In the basement of Washington University’s Brauer Hall, there’s a room full of locusts. Hundreds in each dimly lit cage behind a glass panel, separated by age. A researcher secures the ...

Locusts descended upon East Africa in January. The next month, a swarm blanketed a huge Kenyan lakeshore, transforming the ground into buzzing, yellow fields. Now in May, the locust outbreak isn't ...

June 27, 2022--The first high-quality genome of the desert locust—those voracious feeders of plague and devastation infamy and the most destructive migratory insect in the world—has been produced by U ...

Scientists say robotically doped locusts are able to register the smells of different explosives. By monitoring their firing neurons and “disrupting” their olfactory systems, scientists are able to ...