They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction. When the conditions are right, they transform from mild-mannered loners into gregarious partiers. They swarm, ...

The thought of locusts swarming through an area in a vast, ravenous swarm conjures images of biblical plagues and ancient curses. It’s a reasonable response. Locusts have been a pest animal since the ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Science Progress (1933-) Vol. 104, No. 4, 2021 Haemocyte variations in 35 species of gr ...

Thanks to recent rains in late July (more rain in the last 10 days than fell for the whole month previous), there is now plenty going on as we enter August. The trio of fall wildflowers — goldenrods, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado may be dealing with record heat, wildfire haze and a pandemic in August 2020. At least it doesn’t have locusts. In August 1875, a locust plague was ...

The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a hairy, six-legged, doublejawed grasshopper whose behavior has been exasperation and puzzling mankind ever since his appearance in Exodus as one of the ...

Politicians are talking about border threats again. And this one, federal agents say, is so feared, it was responsible for a Biblical plague. An Egyptian locust — a pest so ravenous that when they ...

In the late 19th century, settlers pushing into the American Midwest looked up from their newly planted fields to see a black shape covering the sky. The air hummed with the sound of billions of ...