U.S. Customs and Border Protect agriculture specialists at Detroit Wayne County Metrop[olitan Airport discovered a live Egyptian locust in a traveler’s luggage from Albania − and quickly brought about ...

A few small swarms moved across the northern Sinai Peninsula during the first week of March 2013. Swarms of the desert locust, known as Schistocerca gregaria, were considered the eighth plague sent ...

They can eat their weight in food daily. They can swarm in numbers reaching 40 million. And they can travel nearly 100 miles in a day. Desert locusts are not to be messed with. But if scientists and ...

KATITIKA, Kenya — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects ...

In 1937, aboard slowly-moving trains, the Army National Guard used flamethrowers in an attempt to quell a relentless plague of locusts crossing through Colorado. But the flamethrowers failed. And so ...

They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction. When the conditions are right, they transform from mild-mannered loners into gregarious partiers. They swarm, ...

Since ancient times, locust plagues have been viewed as one of the most spectacular events in nature. In seemingly spontaneous fashion, as many as 10 billion critters can suddenly swarm the air and ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protect agriculture specialists at Detroit Metro Airport discovered a live Egyptian locust in a traveler’s luggage from Albania. Egyptian locusts are an invasive species in ...