Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

And while chickens could eat about 70 locusts in one day, a duck could devour more than three times that number. "Ducks like to stay in a group, so they are easier to manage than chickens," he ...

The Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires – INSEAD, a UNAI member institution, through its Humanitarian Research Group ... on the impact of locust plagues in vulnerable regions.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University examined the mechanical wear of digging valves located at the tip of the female locust's ...

The current group of locusts they worked with are the "gregarious" type, Raman said. The next step in the research will be to understand how solitary types of locusts react to similar neuromodulation.

The worst desert locust outbreak in a generation has been decimating crops and other vegetation across the Horn of Africa. Since January, Kenya Ethiopia, and Somalia have been battling to contain the ...