They did it under cover of darkness: mothers, fathers, grandparents, children. Only at night are the locusts still and silent, their thick, yellow bodies roosting on whatever trees, crops, and grasses ...

TEL AVIV — Israel’s Negev Desert is alive – with locusts. Huge swarms of the newly hatched critters have begun marching across the sand, devouring everything in their path. With the help of high-tech ...

There's a good reason locusts are considered plague-worthy. Despite their size, swarms of these insects can cause considerable damage by shredding plant life to bits like ravenous piranhas.. The bugs ...

Locusts descended upon East Africa in January. The next month, a swarm blanketed a huge Kenyan lakeshore, transforming the ground into buzzing, yellow fields. Now in May, the locust outbreak isn't ...

They say when life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. But what happens when life throws swarms of desert locusts your way? You could make fertilizer from those locusts, as a team of innovators in ...

Most of the time, the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, is an innocuous grasshopper: a green or brown short-winged insect that lives a solitary life in the deserts of Africa, Arabia and Asia. But ...

ST. LOUIS • In the basement of Washington University’s Brauer Hall, there’s a room full of locusts. Hundreds in each dimly lit cage behind a glass panel, separated by age. A researcher secures the ...

Locusts waged a smear campaign against this Ethiopian airliner, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Addis Ababa in January. Locusts, the scourge of farmers for millennia, also pose a threat to ...