Swarms of locusts expected to plague Africa and Middle East, UN group says
The swarms represent “an unprecedented threat to food security,” according to the Locust Watch website.
Follow us on GoogleA locust is held by Israeli researcher at the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Life Sciences December 22, 2015. Israeli researchers have developed a high-jumping locust lookalike robot that they hope could one day replace humans in military or search-and-rescue operations. P(photo credit: NIR ELIAS / REUTERS)ByMARCY OSTER/JTA