Ecosystems have also come under threat from toxic plants whose spread has been difficult to control during the Russian invasion. Locusts and Landmines Threaten Ukraine’s Farmland originally appeared o ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a new alert warning of the potential for winter breeding of desert ...

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Imagine wandering through the vast Arabian Desert, where the wind sculpts endless dunes and silence reigns supreme. As ...

FLYING swarms of locusts often cannot be effectively attacked from the air because of the danger to the aircraft. Attention is therefore focused on the circumstances in which a swarm will remain on ...

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Forget The Very Hungry Caterpillar—scientists have discovered that another notoriously ravenous insect can eat its very first meal before it is even born. Entomologist Koutaro Ould Maeno of the Japan ...

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 ...

Male locusts have long been observed shielding mates from other males. Researchers say this behavior may also protect the females from desert temperatures. By Gennaro Tomma It may seem like a hopeless ...

In collaboration with the Mauritanian National Center for Desert Locust Control, JIRCAS has chronicled the daytime egg-laying behavior of adult desert locusts (simply referred to here as locusts) in a ...

Mohammed Ali, 30, a pastoralist, is visibly tired, but relentlessly searching for pasture for his cattle under scorching sunshine. He leads over 400 head of cattle from Ewa to Asayta Woreda in the ...

Under a warm morning sun scores of weary soldiers stare as millions of yellow locusts rise into the northern Ugandan sky, despite hours spent spraying vegetation with chemicals in an attempt to kill ...