"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 ...

Francis Xavier Tran Duc Quyen has been having sleepless nights since yellow-spined bamboo locusts started devouring crops in Nghe An province in north-central Vietnam about two weeks ago. The ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - To many farmers in southeast Pakistan, an impending locust attack when summer crops of cotton, sugarcane and rice are being sown, and fruit and ...

AWDAL, Somalia, March 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muse Aarinte watched helplessly as a swarm of locusts swept into his village, devouring all the crops, bushes and even the leaves on the trees.

Turkana County is now the epicentre of desert locust invasion, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned. The county has recorded the highest number of hopper band sites carrying millions ...

ROME (AP) — An unusually large swarm of local locusts, estimated in the millions, is plaguing farmers raising sheep and other livestock in Sardinia. The Italian farmers’ lobby Coldiretti says it has ...

A man sprays organic pesticide on locusts to demonstrate its effects in fighting their spreading, near the village of Riandira in Kirinyaga County, Kenya, January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner KAMPALA, ...

The most serious outbreak of locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, authorities say.