A plague of locusts of biblical proportions has hatched and is growing as Australia, the fourth largest grain exporter, has gone from 13 years of bone-dry drought to the wettest September since the ...

Swarms of locusts in South Australia are not likely to reach outbreak levels, according to experts, with potential El Niño ...

Early rain and warm weather have sparked warnings about the potential for another devastating locust plague in Queensland. Last year saw the biggest locust plague in 30 years, when similar conditions ...

This is an Australian plague locust, or APL, (Chortoicetes terminifera). Researchers will use artificial diets to study how protein and carbohydrate content affect growth, survival, and development of ...

The grasshoppers which can devastate crops and pastures when in large enough numbers have been reported across the Eyre Peninsula, Riverland, Mallee and Yorke Peninsula. Grain Producers SA chief ...