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

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

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 ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Locusts were added to the European Union's list of approved food on Friday as part of the bloc's push towards more sustainable farming and diets. It was the second time Brussels ...

Large swarms of desert locusts are spreading through Kenya, after wreaking havoc in Somalia and Ethiopia, posing a significant threat to food security, the agriculture minister said Friday. The UN's ...

A new wave of locust swarms is spreading in West Pokot County which could precipitate a food crisis. The pests have ravaged acres of maize and beans in Pokot North and Pokot Central sub-counties, ...

From locusts to superworms to honey bees, Singapore has approved 16 species of insects for human consumption. "With immediate effect, SFA will allow the import of insects and insect products belonging ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Locusts nesting in northern Mali and Niger threaten next year's food crop, the U.N.'s top aid official in the region said, after donors and governments across Africa's Sahel zone ...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said today that significant gains had been made in the fight against the desert locust upsurge in ...