Three provinces in South Africa have been plagued by the largest brown locust swarms in decades. And because of heavy rains, the locust outbreak shows no signs of stopping. Swarms of locust hit ...

Locusts in the Boshof area in the western Free State. Photo: Free State Agriculture From Hertzogville to Boshof, farmers in the western Free State region have been plagued by dark clouds of locusts ...

The rainy weather is the reason for the locust outbreaks as more are expected in other districts in Northern Cape over the past few weeks. Northern Cape residents are saying “not again” as brown ...

Frances Duncan receives funding from National Research Foundation. The brown locust found in this area mainly eats grass but will consume any green plants and has been known to decimate maize fields.

If the brown locusts hatch and fly in the Sarah Baartman and Chris Hani districts, the pests will swiftly move eastward, clearing out any cereal crops in their path. This is according to Agri EC chair ...

The Eastern Cape government has warned of a brown locust outbreak in two of the province's districts. The brown locust is a classified agricultural pest in South Africa, and it prefers grasses and ...

Farmers in the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape Karoo are struggling to control the locust swarms that have damaged and consumed thousands of hectares of grazing land. According to Agri SA ...

Jan Marais* knew the brown locusts would be coming but the Northern Cape sheep farmer wasn’t prepared for the scale of the outbreak. “This year with the widespread rain we were expecting trouble,” ...

In some areas of the state, black locust trees have taken on a brown color. This is due to activity of locust leafminer, which results in trees that appear scorched. The adults feed on lower leaf ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The Northern Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa recently experienced their longest drought in 100 years. The seven year drought, starting with lack of rains in ...

The brown locust found in this area mainly eats grass but will consume any green plants and has been known to decimate maize fields. The answer lies in the fact that the eggs can survive for several ...