Swarms begin when flightless juveniles aggregate and start marching in unison. Understanding how these plague insects coordinate their motion is crucial for developing evidence-based control, such as ...

A locust plague is a massive proliferation of these insects that migrate in large swarms, causing devastation to crops and ecosystems. It occurs due to factors such as heavy rains that promote ...

As one of the most powerful pest control experts in the world, I understand the unique danger that deadly plagues of locusts pose and take my responsibility seriously. For close to a year now ...

The country has been steadily subject to many locust outbreaks, with eight major plagues since 1930, according to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. However, there are reports ...

The government wanted every farmer to cooperate in a world plan for eliminating this plague forever. You must attack locusts at the source—hoppers, in short. The men were talking as if they were ...

The yellowed and sometimes barely legible pages of 16 th-century texts speak of disaster after disaster—from the Black Death to locust invasions ... the terrible plague epidemic of 1553 ...

Diaries written in the 16th century have helped researchers to chronicle famine, flooding and plagues in medieval ... and nine years during which locust invasions were recorded.

The clues to this forgotten climate saga weren’t discovered in ice cores or tree rings but rather in human memories — diaries ...