Tiny packets of smoke released near a flying locust showed air swirls similar to swirls predicted by the model.
Since the dawn of agriculture more than 10 000 years ago mankind has had to deal with a resourceful and fearless enemy, Schistocerca gregaria, the desert locust.
In the lineup of head shots near the entrance of Wageningen University's gleaming new entomology department, he's the guy with a locust jutting from a corner of his lips.
In Niger, severe drought and a locust invasion left 3.6 million people short of food.
August 2005 | Geneva - a locust infestation in 2004 coupled with drought the same year and in 2005 has caused a severe food crisis in Niger.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Such nightmare visions, and locust plagues with them, may one day be a thing of the past.
Flying a helicopter over southern Tunisia in 1988 in search of locust footage, he and his crew got more than they'd bargained for.
Writing in Science magazine, locust expert Martin Enserink gave the following graphic description of a locust population gone out of control.
On a visit to an insect farm in Deurne in the south east Netherlands, she greedily peels the wings and legs off a freeze dried locust and crunches down with gusto.
Chuck: Eagle, heron, peacock, warrior, mountain, tree, rabbit, fish, locust, king pigeon, and of course, downward duck.
Chris Adriaansen, the APLC’s director, therefore expects Australia to face its worst locust plague for decades during this springtime.
Blackstone and its subsidiary are keen to avoid an Austrian locust debate, and are gauging public opinion before deciding on their next move.
The locust swarm has destroyed all the crops and vegetables.
There were millions of them around us - a locust sandstorm.
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