In 1937, aboard slowly-moving trains, the Army National Guard used flamethrowers in an attempt to quell a relentless plague of locusts crossing through Colorado. But the flamethrowers failed. And so ...

A swarm of desert locusts flies over an acacia tree in a remote part of Somalia. (Will Swanson / For The Times) In the distance, it looked like a cloud of confetti. Faisa Abdi Alleh had never seen ...

Amid worldwide concerns over the new coronavirus, an age-old but now "extremely alarming" problem is developing in several countries that represents "an unprecedented threat to food security and ...

Desert locusts have become a major problem for some parts of the world over the last few years. Humans have long known about the devastating potential of locust swarms, which were recorded as far back ...

Locust swarms garner biblical headlines, understandable both for the locust’s place in famous biblical stories and for the frankly berserk behavior of these insects. But that does a disservice to the ...

For many locusts, life in a swarm is a picnic. Crowded conditions create a locust-eat-locust world. But it turns out some migrating insects deploy a “don’t-eat-me” pheromone that can deter their ...