Huge swarms of brown locusts have been an issue in three provinces since September 2021, leaving a trail of destruction in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape. Reggie Ngcobo, the ...

The current endemic brown locust outbreak, which is razing through large tracts of agricultural land, is one of the worst in a decade, and has the country’s locust-fighting teams overwhelmed, from ...

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 ...

New outbreaks of the brown locust Locustana pardalina have been reported over a wide area of the Central and Upper Karoo in January and February 2021 following good rain. The initial outbreaks started ...

Updating the nation on the outbreak of brown locusts (Locustana Pardalin), Didiza said South Africa has been experiencing this outbreak in the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape since ...

The locust plague in parts of the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape Karoo is by far the biggest outbreak in the past 25 years, according to entomologist and locust expert Dr Roger Price.

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,” ...

The Brown Locust outbreaks in Southern Africa have not captured headlines in the same way as the desert locust in the Horn of Africa, and the Arabian peninsula has done. However, the pest remains a ...

(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 ...