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.

In early 2020, a locust swarm of biblical proportions swept across parts of Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, damaging hundreds of thousands of hectares of cropland. Now, mind-blowing footage of ...

KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious ...

Rambadan, a farmer from Meja town in Prayagraj says that he had witnessed the locust swarm in 1990’s when he was a young child as he has witnessed it once again. It’s a living creature and it need ...

The Horn of Africa, one of the world's most impoverished regions, is being ransacked by billions of tiny invaders. Farmers look on in horror as desert locusts moving in vast cloud-like swarms darken ...

Cicadas are getting ready to descend on Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio like a plague of locusts. The latest 17-year brood, Brood XIV, may only be a couple of weeks away from emerging this spring. When ...

Swarms beginning to spread to east and north-FAO Madagascar govt sees potential risk for 460,000 households Action needed before rainy season, says FAO ROME, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Madagascar is at risk ...

Locust swarms are particularly hard to defend against because they occur unexpectedly, and scientists have not had much luck predicting when or where they will happen. According to new evidence ...

VIRGINIA, USA — Cicadas are out in full force across parts of the South and Midwest, as the 13-year Brood XIX and the 17-year Brood XIII are emerging from the ground by the millions. From late April ...

For many locusts, life in a swarm is a picnic. Crowded conditions create a locust-eat-locust world. But it turns out some migrating insects deploy a “don’t-eat-me” pheromone that can deter their ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Locusts are voracious eaters with appetites that extend to members of their own ...