Arizona State University PhD student Sydney Millerwise holds a migratory locust in ASU’s Global Locust Initiative lab. A new study by an ASU team and international collaborators identifies a strategy ...

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Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working with farmers in Senegal have shown that improving soil health can ...

Huge swarms of desert locusts are destroying crops across western and central India, prompting authorities Tuesday to step up their response to the country's worst plague in nearly three decades.

Israel is in the grip of a locust invasion. Farmers are seeing their crops gobbled up in minutes - and some people are taking a novel approach to pest control. Eating them. Rabbi Ari Zivotofsky's ...

Scientists want widespread uptake of a locust bio-pesticide, whose success in Tanzania saved over 15 million people from starvation. The push comes a time when more than 100,000 farmers in the country ...

The locusts are so bad in some parts of Kenya that entire fields of crops are being devoured in as little as 30 seconds. Moses Omondi, a program officer at Farm Radio, a charity that works with to ...

Multiple locust swarms in South Australia's Riverland region have put farmers and authorities on alert, prompting the South ...