The first high-quality genome of the desert locust -- those voracious feeders of plague and devastation infamy and the most destructive migratory insect in the world -- has been produced. The genome ...

Billions of locusts have been swarming throughout eastern Africa for months, ravaging crops and threatening the food source for millions of people in the region. Thankfully, NASA's Earth-observing ...

Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

In the past year, waves of the desert locusts have swept across East Africa, Yemen and southwest Asia in massive swarms which have contained up to 80 million in a single square kilometre. The threat ...

The Roaming Locust is a non-hostile entity that spawns outdoors. Akin to a grasshopper, the Roaming Locust wanders around aimlessly outdoors, posing no threat to a player. Here's all the information ...

ROME, Italy – Unusually heavy and widespread rains that fell recently in northwest Africa, the Horn of Africa and Yemen could favor Desert Locust breeding, FAO warned today, stressing that close monit ...

ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan and Iran prepare for the spring locust breeding season, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has started strengthening the capacities of its ...

The first thing that comes to mind when we think of the desert locust is destruction. Traveling in swarms that can number in the billions, or even trillions, and spread over large swathes of land, ...

In 2020, India faced its worst locust invasion in 27 years, with swarms destroying over 50,000 hectares of cropland across Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Maharashtra. This occurred amid the ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) has formed a Locust Information Centre today under the coordination of Ram Krishna Subedi, director of the Plant Quarantine and Pesticide ...