In a scene that was equal parts futuristic and biblical, a swarm of grasshoppers descended upon a giant pyramid in Las Vegas this weekend. Meanwhile, a true plague descended upon Yemen’s largest city, ...

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, ...

While writing about locust trees growing along the Feather River, I was confronted by the word “locust” being used for an insect, too. Certain grasshopper species in Africa, Asia, Australia, and some ...

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 ...

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, ...

Journal of Orthoptera Research, No. 4 (Aug., 1995), pp. 61-64 (4 pages) For the past 10-15 years Brazil has undergone wide-ranging outbreaks of locusts and grasshoppers. Rhammatocerus schistocercoides ...

It's a destructive crop infestation of biblical proportions. Farmers in Sardinia, Italy, are complaining of grasshoppers and locusts that are swarming the Italian island and destroying farmlands.