Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 19th century, settlers pushing into the American Midwest looked up from their newly planted fields to see a black ...

As if we hadn't already seen enough Biblical events this year, a plague of over 30 million locusts swarmed over Egypt's cities and farms just three weeks before Passover begins. But put your ...

DMC International Imaging (DMCii) is helping The Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) to predict the spread of locust plagues across North Africa as part of a pro-active approach to tackle the destructive ...

The crop-devouring pests love arid conditions and the occasional downpour. Global warming is offering more of both. By Raymond Zhong Rising temperatures could expand the area of the globe under threat ...

ONE of the oldest of all agricultural problems is that of locust invasions. References to such plagues are frequent in the texts of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese and Hebrews-the oldest dates ...

The International Regional Organization for Plant and Animal Health (OIRSA), based in San Salvador, issued an alert on Wednesday regarding a locust infestation affecting fields in Central America and ...

Inner Mongolia is being hit hard by a locust plague that is stripping the area’s grasslands. Legions of the ravenous insects have attacked some 10 million hectares across the region’s plains -- 10 ...

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