Between June 2019 and February 2022, a major outbreak of desert locusts began developing, threatening food supplies in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula...

Locust swarms have been recorded throughout history. Those which have their own Wikipedia articles are listed here, but there are many more notable ones...

Locusts (derived from the Latin locusta, locust or lobster) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming...

The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a species of locust, a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. They are...

The Locust Plague of 1874, or the Grasshopper Plague of 1874, occurred in the summer of 1874 when hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts invaded the Great Plains...

especially vulnerable because an extreme wet season caused the 2019–2022 locust infestation, which destroyed large regions of crops. By early October 2021...

The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) is an extinct species of grasshopper that ranged through the western half of the United States and some...

season in December 2019, unseasonal rains caused the incursion to reach unanticipated and hazardous levels. The 2019–2022 locust infestation caused widespread...

whiteflies: similarly, locust swarms could also cause more damage as the result. A notable example was the 2019–2022 locust infestation focused on East Africa...

arrested. In May 2019, there was a car accident between Lafa-Ruug and Hamaas that killed 7 people. In June 2019, Locust infestation occurred in Lafa-Ruug...