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 worst desert locust ... after cyclones dumped considerable amounts of rain in the deserts of Oman, Yemen and the Horn of Africa. This created a perfect breeding condition for the locust, says ...

Now a team led by the University of Cambridge has developed a way to predict when and where desert locusts will swarm, so they can be dealt with before the problem gets out of hand. It uses ...

There's a good reason locusts are considered plague-worthy. Despite their size, swarms of these insects ... world," and that will have been the case before climate change encourages even more ...

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 ...

Locusts have huge appetites ... And it got even worse after another cyclone came through the region at the end of 2019. Now, swarms have invaded 15 counties in Kenya and have reached Uganda ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few moments later, the plane hit a larger swarm with some locust ... was reported. After the inspection, it operated a scheduled service between Addis Ababa and Entebbe, Uganda, before resuming ...