In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Sept. 5, researchers led by Prof. Kang Le from the Beijing Institutes of Life Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

What causes solitary, harmless insects to radically change their behavior and form huge migrating swarms? TAU researchers propose an original scientific explanation. The researchers: "When a solitary ...

Huge swarms of migratory locusts take on the proportions of natural disasters and threaten the food supply of millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia. As the eighth of the ten biblical ...

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 ...

Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) feeding: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology want to understand how odor perception and processing affects the dangerous swarming behavior ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the livelihood of one in ten people due to their impact on food security.

Africa is currently experiencing two locust outbreaks both due to unusual climatic conditions. These two outbreaks are unrelated but are due to the unusually high rainfall and flooding in the areas ...

The crop-devouring pests love arid conditions and the occasional downpour. Global warming is offering more of both. By Raymond Zhong Rising temperatures could expand the area of the globe under threat ...

Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear. Seen from the air at dawn, a swarm of desert ...

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.