resulting in a plague of locusts, like the one now devastating parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Experts say early detection is a key to keeping them under control. "What's going on in ...

In Argentina, farmers and fumigators are desperately trying to control the worst locust plague in more than half a century. Swarms of the large grasshoppers in the dry forests of the north ...

Quelling desert locusts requires a potent concoction of the right environmental conditions (like drier and cooler weather) combined with a robust human effort to control the insects — though ...

They are voracious eaters and are difficult and expensive to control. For example, according to a 2005 paper, it cost $450 million to stop the 2003-2005 desert locust plague in Africa that caused ...

The New South Wales and Victorian departments of primary industry (DPI) are continuing to monitor and treat plague ... holders to control an outbreak. Noel Grant from the Victorian Locust Control ...

This discovery may allow the future development of control agents that target molecular pathways specific to plague locusts.” “Lying.” “Disgusting.” “Scum.” “Slime.” ...

Farmers in Argentina are working to control the worst plague of locusts in more than 50 years, officials said on Monday. The New York Times reports that the insect swarm could soon destroy crops ...

A plague of locusts of "almost biblical proportions" is threatening Afghanistan, a country wrecked by years of fighting, drought and food shortages, a senior international aid official said on Monday.

Grants gazelles and Oryx, large antelopes, stand in the grasslands where they usually graze, surrounded by a swarm of desert locusts. In the early stages of the locust control effort Kenya threw ...