The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s December locust bulletin said with forecasts indicating below average rainfall and warmer temperatures for December and about average rainfall ...

The consumption of edible insects, a common part of the diet of some Asian and Latin American countries, is tentatively ...

Shawn-Shawn was born at Zoo Atlanta in 1975 and was named for a term of endearment in Taiwan, a Noah’s Ark representative ...

The Egyptian locust, also called the horror locust, stands out in size among the approximately 60-70 locust species living in ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

A turkey vulture flies around the Snake River near the Perrine Bridge on Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Twin Falls. A hummingbird ...

Micro-jumping robots offer unique advantages in scenarios such as confined space exploration and post-disaster search and rescue. However, ...

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable ...

CEO Stefan Wilhelm told CBS the choice of insect was deliberate. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is large enough to carry small payloads, resilient under extreme conditions, ...

Somewhere in Locust Valley — we are not at liberty to disclose the precise location — there is a house with a wide wraparound porch that every spring becomes a maternity colony for an extended family ...

The gardening topic which has simply dominated discussions among gardeners and even non-gardeners in central Ohio in the past six to eight weeks has been the widespread presence of the dreaded spotted ...

WASHINGTON — A chemical that affects people's moods also can transform easygoing desert locusts into terrifying swarms that ravage the countryside, scientists report. "Here we have a solitary and ...