Cicadas are getting ready to descend on Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio like a plague of locusts. The latest 17-year brood, Brood XIV, may only be a couple of weeks away from emerging this spring. When ...

Arizona State University scientists are part of an international research team that discovered a simple, soil-based method to ...

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

KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious ...

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

A team of zoologists, molecular engineers and pest control specialists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a small team of colleagues from Peking University, has identified some of the ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In case you haven't heard, Massachusetts will soon be swarmed with insects known as cicadas. In next few weeks, the 17-year ...

New research is reshaping our understanding of one of nature's most stunning yet destructive phenomena -- massive locust swarms moving together. New research published in Science is reshaping our ...