A study of one of the world's longest-running disaster warning systems—desert locust monitoring—finds surveillance limits ...

A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and Asia. Desert locusts typically lead ...

Monitoring systems for disaster prevention are costly, and measuring benefits is difficult when monitoring effort is endogenous. We provide the first causal estimate of one such system's impact using ...

In May 2022, the largest locust infestation in a quarter century descended on South Africa’s Eastern Cape, stripping 19,305 square miles of grazing land. With another swarm predicted for September ...

As global warming accelerates, scientists say it’s more important than ever to understand how climate extremes such as heatwaves, droughts and extreme rains affect locust outbreaks that can destroy ...

Desert locusts can shift from harmless, solitary insects into continent-spanning swarms capable of covering 40 miles, but the conditions that produce those swarms often build quietly across years or ...

Researchers show that the migratory locust Locusta migratoria produces the compound phenylacetonitrile (PAN) to defend itself against feeding attacks by conspecifics as population density increases.

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 ...

The locust invasion has reached what experts call full blown crisis hitting almost half of the counties and destroying acres of crop and fodder. Despite the unprecedented nature of the situation, the ...

This migratory pest can reach plague proportions, and a swarm covering one square kilometre can consume enough food in one day to feed 35,000 people. Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until ...

A new early warning tool developed by British scientists will help control devastating locust swarms. Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something - such as an intense rainstorm - ...