Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, will emerge in Massachusetts in the next few weeks. Cicadas, unlike locusts, do not swarm or decimate crops. Both cicadas and locusts are herbivores, but cicadas are ...

Beijing, Jan 9 (PTI) Scientists have discovered how locusts change their body colour to adapt to different environments. The findings, published in the journal eLife, reveal a novel ‘palette effect’ ...

The idea of using animals to detect sick humans is good, and a team of researchers from Michigan State University has released a new study that details how locusts can help with this. A locust sits on ...

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 ...