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Locust swarms will intensify with climate change, threatening food security, study finds
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 months agoLocust WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images There's a good reason locusts are considered plague-worthy....
Insect Farming Isn't Going to Save the Planet
Time via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA farmer holds a handful of locusts in Pakistan. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg Credit - Getty Images/Bloomberg Creative—© 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP...
Experts buy insect from collector — and accidentally find species not seen in 150 years
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn 2022, a group of researchers purchased a collection of insects from a local Brazil collector....
Erratic weather fueled by climate change will worsen locust outbreaks, study finds
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoExtreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused...
Surprisingly, cicada broods keep going extinct. Some experts are working to save them.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe passenger pigeon once darkened the skies over the Midwest (they went extinct in 1914). A swarm...
Millions of cicadas are blanketing Lake Geneva. Here's what they look and sound like
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe moment you exit your car in front of the Lake Geneva Public Library, the sound is overwhelming....
Crickets and grasshoppers everywhere!
Times Record News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCrickets and grasshoppers everywhere! Is this an unusual occurrence or summer status quo? Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an abundance of...
Alabama Cicada-geddon: Trillions of insects to emerge during rare dual-brood event
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTrillions of insects are emerging from the ground to make racket, buzz around and breed. It’s not a...
Swarming insects can ‘produce as much electricity as thunderstorm clouds’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years ago‘Exciting new area of empirical research’ reveals atmospheric electric charge helps bees find food...
Like hungry locusts, humans can easily be tricked into overeating
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOur bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle —...