The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a warning about a potential desert locust outbreak in Morocco, as swarms continue spreading across North Africa. The warning ...

New research published in Science is reshaping our understanding of one of nature’s most stunning yet destructive phenomena — ...

Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced today that the country has heightened its preparedness levels following the detection ...

Tarqi, spokesman for the National Committee for Combating Desert Locusts, has confirmed the spread of locust swarms, which ...

To prepare for the breeding season, a regional training programme was conducted in FAO’s headquarters in Rome under the framework of the Commission for Control of the Desert Locust in South-West Asia ...

Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) are normally solitary insects, but in crowded conditions, they undergo physical and behavioral changes and become 'gregarious', clustering in swarms that can ...

Efforts to combat desert locusts have been continuing in Libya in several areas, with new hot spots discovered in Sirte and several cities in central and southern regions, amid fears of their spread.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization issued an alert for Algeria, Libya and Tunisia against groups of desert locusts. The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during ...

Greg Sword, Ph.D., studies desert locusts and other swarming insects like crickets and is a researcher in the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute at Texas A&M University. New research ...

They had been researching and tracking vast numbers of desert locusts swarming across northern Kenya and a new generation was now hatching in Turkana, Kenya's poorest region. We had to mobilise ...