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 ...

Study author Sercan Sayin began probing this model in locusts using a virtual reality (VR) stage set for locusts. Sayin had the insects walk on a ball surrounded by panoramic views on screens. These ...

Locusts have huge appetites ... At the very least, officials are urging the world to step in and help. Dominique Burgeon, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN: "Now it's time for the ...

In 2003, a large locust outbreak across 20 countries in Northern Africa lasted until 2005. Studies found that children who grew up during the period were much less likely to go to school, and girls ...

These landscapes reconstructed the world in 3D to make the locusts think they were in a swarm, Sayin said. But he couldn't replicate the 2006 findings that animal density was responsible for ...

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 ...

A new study by researchers has found that brown locusts are carriers of harmful yeasts that can cause infections in humans.