These swarms devastate crops over large areas ... Next, they assessed the effects on locust behavior of blocking either the action or the production of serotonin and found that either block ...

Argentina and Brazil are monitoring the movement of a 15-square-kilometer locust swarm in Argentina’s northeast, though authorities and specialists said so far it had not caused significant ...

A swarm can eat enough food to feed 34 million people in just one day. And within a year, the locusts destroyed over 170,000 acres of land in Somalia and Ethiopia — where people rely on crops ...

It was the case of one good story leading to another. After its shocking report Jan. 25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking ...

The locusts are breeding and forming new swarms in the Horn of Africa, The Times of Israel reported, citing Locust Watch, part of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations.

A locust swarm typically comprises billions of the winged insects that destroy vast areas of farmland in days and generally afflict countries in Africa. Between 2012 and 2019, the researchers ...

The Navy's new LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology) launchers fire a swarm of drones that can jam enemy communications, and waste enemy resources by drawing fire. The launchers are capable of ...