"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 ...

There's a good reason locusts are considered plague-worthy. Despite their size, swarms of these insects can cause considerable damage by shredding plant life to bits like ravenous piranhas.. The bugs ...

The Global Locust Initiative, part of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, examines locusts within the broader ...

Locusts have undersized babies—with their first lunch already in their guts—in dry conditions. Desert locusts have two distinct modes—solitary and gregarious—that are behaviorally and visibly ...

Extreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused climate change likely to intensify the weather patterns and cause higher outbreak risks, a new study has ...