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 ...

Huge swarms of desert locusts are destroying crops across western and central India, prompting authorities Tuesday to step up their response to the country's worst plague in nearly three decades.

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Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working with farmers in Senegal have shown that improving soil health can ...

Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, will emerge in Massachusetts in the next few weeks. Cicadas, unlike locusts, do not swarm or decimate crops. Both cicadas and locusts are herbivores, but cicadas are ...