Mathematicians have now figured out the dynamics that drive locusts across the landscape, devastating everything underfoot — and the math says people will never be able to predict where the little buggers will go.
SWARM BREWING The desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, can rapidly switch from a solitary insect to part of a swarming mass.
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