A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and Asia. Desert locusts typically lead ...
Markus Knaden is in the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena D-007745, Germany. Catching plague locusts with their own scent Guo et al. identified ...
Despite assurance from Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya, the locust menace is far from being brought under control. A locust invasion from Somalia hit Kenya in December last year and has so ...
Billions of desert locusts have descended again on East Africa. Crawling first, then sprouting wings and flying in hungry hoards of 40-150 million or more, they are devastating crops and threatening ...
Students from Nyandarua TTI show bio-pesticide made from various weeds and chili. [File, Standard] Kenya continues to grapple with the threat of desert locust invasions, which endanger food security, ...
Pakistan and India are facing their biggest outbreak of desert locust swarms in 25 years (see Nature 579, 330; 2020 and Nature 579, 174; 2020). Despite last year’s stand-off, the neighbouring ...
A new early warning tool developed by British scientists will help control devastating locust swarms. Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something - such as an intense rainstorm - ...
Agroecology is above all political. It rejects virtually everything that has enabled modern agriculture to feed billions more people from less acreage. It rabidly opposes monoculture farming, hybrid ...
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