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, ...

Journal of Orthoptera Research, No. 4 (Aug., 1995), pp. 61-64 (4 pages) For the past 10-15 years Brazil has undergone wide-ranging outbreaks of locusts and grasshoppers. Rhammatocerus schistocercoides ...

The thought of locusts swarming through an area in a vast, ravenous swarm conjures images of biblical plagues and ancient curses. It’s a reasonable response. Locusts have been a pest animal since the ...

In a scene that was equal parts futuristic and biblical, a swarm of grasshoppers descended upon a giant pyramid in Las Vegas this weekend. Meanwhile, a true plague descended upon Yemen’s largest city, ...

For Midwest farmers in the 1870s, it was if doomsday had come, and the horseman was the Rocky Mountain Locust.

While writing about locust trees growing along the Feather River, I was confronted by the word “locust” being used for an insect, too. Certain grasshopper species in Africa, Asia, Australia, and some ...

Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in Science, could be used in the future to prevent the plagues which devastate ...

EATING MACHINE: The migratory grass-hopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes, is the closest living relative of America's extinct plague locust. Can it also swarm? One summer in the Oklahoma panhandle ...

The search for alternatives to the widespread use of chemicals to control locusts and grasshoppers has led to the development of mycoinsecticides based on Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum. Two ...

It's a destructive crop infestation of biblical proportions. Farmers in Sardinia, Italy, are complaining of grasshoppers and locusts that are swarming the Italian island and destroying farmlands.