India is scrambling drones, sending teams to spray insecticide and issuing alerts as swarms of locusts descend on its western states. The drones are helping track the voracious insects as they destroy ...

India's been hit by a cyclone and a heat wave this month. That's all on top of the pandemic, which, of course, has the country under lockdown. The country's economy has also taken a hit with 100 ...

Huge swarms of locusts are sweeping through western and central India. Locusts, which are part of the grasshopper family, are highly mobile and can migrate across different countries and cause extreme ...

After attacking crops in Madhya Pradesh, a swarm of locusts reached Jhansi district on Wednesday, an Uttar Pradesh official said. After attacking crops in Madhya Pradesh, a swarm of locusts reached ...

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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 locust outbreak was reported in May 2019 after 26 years, and grasshoppers returned in December-January period to cause extensive damage, the officials of the Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) said ...

IN a land of continental features like India there are major insect pests which have the capacity of spreading from one part of the country to another. Where such pests appear more or less regularly ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Desert locusts on Saturday invaded Gurugram, a satellite city of India's capital New Delhi, prompting authorities to ask people to keep their windows shut and bang utensils to ...