Last year was notable because two groups emerged at once and their areas had some geographic overlap. In 2025, one brood is ...

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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.

Aussies across parts of the country are waking up to find their gardens "swarmed" by little critters with tree trunks, lawns ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

The ABC has witnessed the technology in action. "In the future we can imagine a hundred or thousand insects swarming around a collapsed building, every one of them with a camera or sensor," Dr Vo ...

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 ...