and swarms of insects exhibit coordinated movement. Each entity interacts with its surroundings and other individuals without any centralized control to display complex and intelligent behavior.

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Cambridge researchers developed a model to predict desert locust swarms, protecting crops and preventing starvation.

West Virginia University roboticists are working on an alternative path to robot autonomy in Loopy, a "multicellular robot" ...

Swarms of insects are said to be plaguing residents in a Lincolnshire village. As well as bites, people in North Somercotes, south of Cleethorpes, have complained of a constant buzzing.

Somalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa. The country's Ministry of Agriculture said the insects, which consume large amounts of vegetation ...

Doing this, the scientists look at how birds or insects swarm "using very simple behaviours". For instance, birds "look at their closest neighbours in the flock and they do things like 'oh ...