Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working ...

Arizona State University scientists are part of an international research team that discovered a simple, soil-based method to keep locusts from eating crops. To their knowledge, it’s the first study ...

"They're very destructive when there's a lot of them, but one-on-one, what's not to love?" says Arianne Cease. She's talking about locusts. As the director of Arizona State University's Global Locust ...

A locust in a “solitarious” phase is shy. It acts like a regular grasshopper: avoiding others of its kind, appearing a ...

Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear. Seen from the air at dawn, a swarm of desert ...

The takeaway: The US Army's latest counter-drone weapon works less like a missile and more like a bug zapper. Mounted on tactical vehicles, the Locust laser reflects how directed-energy systems have ...

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The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research ...

The famed “Brood X” of the 17-year cicadas are due to emerge from their long slumber in the coming month, but they are probably not coming directly to Greene County, according to historical records.

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