Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) warns farmers in Punjab about brown locust infestations in paddy fields, urging ...

A cyclone that hit parts of Somalia this week killed eight people and displaced thousands, flooded farmlands and could worsen a locust plague, an official and United Nations agencies said.

A locust on a cotton crop in Kerio Valley in Elgeyo Marakwet county in January 2021. [File, Standard] A new wave of locusts has invaded farms and grazing lands in Turkana South, posing a threat to ...

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — An invasion of locusts has spread across Pakistan, officials said Friday, causing damage to crops and orchards and posing a threat to food security in an impoverished Islamic ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has started to spray swarms of desert locusts that invaded over the weekend, posing a major threat to livestock and key crops such as coffee, a government official said on ...

Q&A with Cyril Ferrand, Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Resilience Team Leader for East Africa Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) How is the Desert Locust campaign in East ...

Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, will emerge in Massachusetts in the next few weeks. Cicadas, unlike locusts, do not swarm or decimate crops. Both cicadas and locusts are herbivores, but cicadas are ...