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 ...

A study recently published in Science has found that classical models of collective behavior fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms—an ecological phenomenon that affects millions ...

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 ...

New research published in Science is reshaping our understanding of one of nature’s most stunning yet destructive phenomena — massive locust swarms moving together. A team of researchers, including ...

The coronavirus isn't the only plague making headlines this year -- locusts are devastating crops in several parts of the world, and now scientists are discovering why the pest forms destructive ...

Thirty million locusts have swarmed Egypt, causing a mist of unwanted insects around the ancient country. Though its in the norm for Egypt to have its usual locust swarm, this time the amount of the ...

“I couldn’t imagine the scale until I saw it with my own eyes,” reports Einat Couzin-Fuchs. When a plague of locusts broke out in Kenya four years ago, she and her team were in the field: “Some areas ...

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