Today’s Solutions: October 08, 2024

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It could be possible to stop locust swarms using their own scent

A single locust is just bigger than a paper clip. But when these solitary critters attract others into a growing swarm, billions of locusts wind up flying together, forming a moving carpet that can block out the sun and strip the landscape of plants and crops. Giant swarms like this have Read More...

several migratory locusts crawling on a maize plant, background sky, schistocerca gregaria

Scientists are battling locust swarms from space

Locust swarms are serious. In a single day, a desert locust swarm (about 40 million bugs) can eat as much food as 35,000 people in a single day — and in the summer of 2020, billions of locusts were devouring crops across East Africa and the Middle East as part of an outbreak the size of which Read More...