IT is a matter of common knowledge that the ^ damage occasioned by locust invasions is frequently extremely serious. Thus, in the year 1874, the destruction brought about by these insects in the Rocky ...

Once you know what to look for, it seems like they’re everywhere, coming for people’s backyards and gardens, and they can’t be killed by normal means. Lydia Casey, with her knife, jug of herbicide and ...

IT is not unusual for proceedings of international scientific congresses to be published some months, or even years later, but this cannot be said with regard to the Third International Locust ...

Plagues of locust have threatened agricultural production in Africa, Middle East and Asia for centuries. Desert locusts are potentially the most dangerous of the locust pest because of the ability of ...

IN THE LIST of plagues inflicted upon the people of Egypt in the Book of Exodus, only darkness and death get higher billing than locusts. That ranking is apt. Today, Schistocerca gregaria, also known ...

In 1937, aboard slowly-moving trains, the Army National Guard used flamethrowers in an attempt to quell a relentless plague of locusts crossing through Colorado. But the flamethrowers failed. And so ...

Invasive Moroccan locusts (epa) Swarms of Moroccan locusts have returned to Central Asia, flying north from Afghanistan into Kazakhstan and leaving barren fields in their wake. Although the insects ...

Lou Del Bello is a climate and energy journalist currently living in New Delhi. This story originally featured on Undark. The farmer stands in front of his barren field, dotted with stunted cumin ...