Residents of southeastern Mexico were left in shock after locusts swallowed the region's skies, leading many — including local media — to evoke passages from the Bible.

They're swarming in gargantuan numbers in parts of Africa and South Asia — and posing a major threat to the food supply. If you have questions about these insects, we have answers.

A LOCUST plague of "biblical proportions" has descended on Bahrain as a warning sign of the end times, a prominent Christian evangelist has bizarrely claimed. By Sebastian Kettley 07:59, Tue, Feb ...

Huge, biblical locust swarms can't be stopped, but the aim is to contain the outbreaks of hundreds of millions of voracious, swarming insects.

A swarm of locusts is plaguing farmlands on the Italian island of Sardinia in what farmers have called the worst infestation since the end of World War II. The locusts, estimated in the millions ...

One such locust connoisseur, Rabbi Natan Slifkin, wrote in a blog post for The Times of Israel, that the Torah permits the consumption of certain types of locusts.

Billions of locusts have swarmed over at least eight East African countries, ... Schistocerca gregaria, better known as the desert locust, has smitten East Africa like a plague from the Bible.

East Africa is seeing its worst swarms of locusts in many decades. How can these ravenous pests be stopped? Drawn to an emaciated avocado drooping from a drying mother tree, Esther Ndavu wonders ...

They're swarming in gargantuan numbers in parts of Africa and South Asia — and posing a major threat to the food supply. If you have questions about these insects, we have answers.

Titanic swarms of desert locusts resembling dark storm clouds are descending ravenously on the Horn of Africa. They're roving through croplands and flattening farms in a devastating salvo experts ...