While residents of the United States and much of Europe think of locust plagues as biblical references, locust swarms still have devastating effects on agriculture today, especially in developing countries in Asia and Africa.
Ecology
Jan 26, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study by Darrell Kemp, of Macquarie University, looking at the mating behaviour of the Australian plague locust has found that reproducing has a particularly high cost. According to Kemp, the rate ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2012
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Two millennia of foreign invasions and internal wars in China were driven more by cooling climate than by feudalism, class struggle or bad government, a bold study released Wednesday argued.
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2010
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Satellites are helping to predict favourable conditions for desert locusts to swarm, which poses a threat to agricultural production and, subsequently, livelihoods and food security.
Environment
Jun 13, 2017
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The choppers swoop in, dumping insecticide over a plague-stricken village in Madagascar's stunning central highlands.
Ecology
May 19, 2014
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Plagues of mice and locusts are threatening huge swathes of Australia's farming heartland and could wipe out crops worth one billion dollars (880 million US), scientists warned Wednesday.
Ecology
Jul 14, 2010
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