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Australia has three main pest species of native locusts, with adult plague locusts and spur-throated locusts capable of flying several hundred kilometres overnight. Queensland Chief Scientist ...

Locusts, the scourge of farmers for millennia, also pose a threat to aviation worldwide. They fly as high as 3,000 feet and in swarms of up to 50 million, according to the Australian Civil ...

As one of the most powerful pest control experts in the world, I understand the unique danger that deadly plagues of locusts pose and ... In the 1950s, a plague of ugly birds descended upon ...

The economic, human, and environmental impacts of the current locust plague are substantial and could last generations. World Bank estimates—based on projections issued by FAO in March 2020--show that ...