A new study led by scientists from the Chinese MARA-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety has discovered the optimum time to apply safer-to-use and more environmentally-friendly biopesticides to fight ...

The European Commission has authorized Locusta migratoria (migratory locust) as a novel food to be placed on the market. This is the second authorization of an insect as a novel food — the first being ...

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 ...

Journal of Orthoptera Research, No. 7, Proceedings: 7th International Meeting, Orthopterists' Society, Cairns, Australia, 1998 (Dec., 1998), pp. 173-178 (6 pages) Management of locust populations ...

INVESTIGATIONS have shown that the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides R. and F., is able to regulate its water loss according to its state of desiccation. Adult males of similar age ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Science Progress (1933-) Vol. 104, No. 4, 2021 Haemocyte variations in 35 species of gr ...

The migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, develops into solitary (above) or gregarious (below) phases depending on population density. Because of PLIN2-induced ectopic lipid accumulation, the muscles ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a chemical compound released by locusts that causes them to swarm, opening the door to possible new ways to prevent these insects from devouring crops ...

Researchers show that the migratory locust Locusta migratoria produces the compound phenylacetonitrile (PAN) to defend itself against feeding attacks by conspecifics as population density increases.