IN THE LIST of plagues inflicted upon the people of Egypt in the Book of Exodus, only darkness and death get higher billing than locusts. That ranking is apt. Today, Schistocerca gregaria, also known ...

Plagues of locust have threatened agricultural production in Africa, Middle East and Asia for centuries. Desert locusts are potentially the most dangerous of the locust pest because of the ability of ...

Residents in Australia, where parts of the country are being inundated by the worst plague of locusts in 30 years, are being encouraged to cook and eat the flying insects. According to the Daily ...

Chinese factories are producing thousands of tonnes of a "green zombie fungus" to help fight the swarms of locusts plaguing east Africa. Metarhizium is a genus of fungi with nearly 50 species – some ...