Residents in Australia, where parts of the country are being inundated by the worst plague of locusts in 30 years, are being encouraged to cook and eat the flying insects. According to the Daily ...

Landholders in southern New South Wales have been congratulated for their efforts in controlling locusts so far this season. More than 1,580 reports of locust activity have been recorded across the ...

Plagues of locust have threatened agricultural production in Africa, Middle East and Asia for centuries. Desert locusts are potentially the most dangerous of the locust pest because of the ability of ...

The South Australian Opposition's spokesman for agriculture, Adrian Pederick, says the State Government must do more to tackle the locust problem now, before looking ahead to spring. Agriculture ...

Much brainpower has been dedicated to the controlling of these insects, the swarms of which can lead, and have led to, famines. Methods of control have included the digging of trenches to catch ...

Pakistan officials have warned that the next few weeks could be crucial in the fight against desert locust infestation with major swarms expected to reach the country later this month from the Horn of ...

New Delhi, Aug 23 () Control measures to check the spread of crop-threatening migratory pest locust have been taken in 10 states covering more than 5.66 lakh hectares area till now, the Union ...

The exponential population growth last year has just aggravated the problem. What: The desert locust differs from grasshoppers in that they have the ability to change their behaviour and habits and ...

KARACHI: The Indian government is in some measure responsible for the current locust attack on West Pakistan on an unprecedented scale. Although Rajasthan desert is the main breeding ground of the ...