After months of building, the biggest locust swarm recorded in 70 years swept across 10 countries in East Africa in spring ...

When Pharaoh failed to keep his promise to free the Israelites, Moses summoned a swarm of locusts to devour all vegetation in Egypt. In the Old Testament book of ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the livelihood of one in ten people due to their impact on food security.

The swarms were so thick they obscured the sun. Mohammed Adan, a farmer in northeastern Kenya, watched the horde of desert locusts first descend in late 2019. He’s been grappling with their legacy ...