The desert locust (a type of grasshopper), much like Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, goes from being an innocuous solitary-living individual to become a voracious gregarious animal that destroys everything on its ...

A team of scientists has shown how the environment shapes learning and memory by training locusts like Pavlov’s dog to associate different smells with reward or punishment. A team of scientists has ...

The locusts we see are usually green. This coloration provides protection by allowing locusts to blend into their green surroundings to avoid predators. However, when locusts gather in high population ...

Researchers wielding artists’ paintbrushes have tickled some insects and come up with a new insight into how a plague of locusts gets started. Left to itself, the desert locust of biblical fame stays ...

A team of scientists led by Prof. KANG Le at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported an unprecedented animal defense mechanism by which an olfactory aposematic (warning) signal ...

Because, while watching QI last night, I discovered something that changed how I look at bugs forever ― it turns out that locusts are made, not born. The biblical bugs are basically a form of ...

It is one of nature's most radical transformations - the moment a crowd of harmless desert locusts begins to swarm into a devastating plague. Now scientists from the UK and Australia say they have ...

Huge swarms of migratory locusts take on the proportions of natural disasters and threaten the food supply of millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia. As the eighth of the ten biblical ...