Tag: Locusts

What causes solitary, harmless insects to radically change their behavior and form huge migrating swarms?

Farmers fear for their crops, but migratory birds are enjoying nature’s “protein bars.”

The locust swarms came to Israel from Saudi Arabia with the help of strong winds and should be leaving the area with the change in wind direction.

It's been “a bit annoying” because the locusts “get into your house, your car, your hair.”

Fundamentalists were working overtime before Passover to describe how just as in Biblical times, the Jews were spared from the plague. Now the locusts are working overtime, just in time for Shavuot.

Spray planes are working overtime and so far have overcome millions of locusts that have invaded southern Israel, with much smaller numbers reported in...

Israelis are excited over the latest tourists – locusts – while the Agriculture Ministry is making sure the pests have a short stay. Armchair preachers are having as field day with the new arrivals.

A swarm of several thousands locusts that descended on Egypt began to cross into southern Israel Monday night, but agricultural officials said that pesticides...

No, I'm not laughing...but come on, locusts? Egypt? Just before Passover?

Israel's Agriculture Ministry set up an emergency hotline Monday and has asked citizens to immediately report any sightings of locusts in order to prevent...

A swarm of 30 million locusts has attacked the fields of Giza, southwest of Cairo.

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