In the late 19th century, settlers pushing into the American Midwest looked up from their newly planted fields to see a black shape covering the sky. The air hummed with the sound of billions of ...
The first high-quality genome of the desert locust -- those voracious feeders of plague and devastation infamy and the most destructive migratory insect in the world -- has been produced. The genome ...
They resembled thick plumes of black smoke on the outback horizon, a concerning sight for grazier Geoff Seccombe. The reality was worse. It was a "massive swarm" of millions of locusts, 10 times ...
A severe plague of locusts has infested about half of Madagascar, threatening crops and raising concerns about food shortages, a UN agency says. The UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said ...