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"They're very destructive when there's a lot of them, but one-on-one, what's not to love?" says Arianne Cease. She's talking about locusts. As the director of Arizona State University's Global Locust ...

A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and Asia. Desert locusts typically lead ...

Arizona State University PhD student Sydney Millerwise holds a migratory locust in ASU’s Global Locust Initiative lab. A new study by an ASU team and international collaborators identifies a strategy ...

A recent outbreak of locust development has been identified in Ukraine's eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, posing a threat to ...

New research published in Science is reshaping our understanding of one of nature’s most stunning yet destructive phenomena — massive locust swarms moving together. A team of researchers, including ...

Sometimes, what seems like an impending disaster can become an afterthought in the blink of an eye. Surprisingly, it’s often our unwitting actions that have the most profound impact on preventing ...

On Feb. 24, drivers on a Western Sahara Desert highway were ambushed by an unexpected obstacle: a massive swarm of locusts engulfing the road. Video captured on the highway shows cars forging through ...

Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something—like intense rainfall—triggers them to swarm in vast numbers, often with devastating consequences. This migratory pest can reach plague ...