9.9K views · 103 reactions | A locust plague is decimating east Africa and it threatens to become a humanitarian crisis! | Daily Mail Video | Facebook

Millions of people are at risk of famine because of an unprecedented outbreak of desert locusts ravaging crops in East Africa. | Brut

6.3M views · 19K reactions | Locust Plague Devours 40,000 Tonnes of Vegetation When crops are plentiful, locusts have a unique hunting technique: they create a plague-like swarm up to a kilometre long, destroying all the vegetation in their path. #EarthsTropicalIslands | BBC Earth | Facebook

Please stop believing in WhatsApp forwards, literally no locusts have been sighted in Bandra. #FakeNews | Bandra Buzz

At the Department of Collective Behaviour, part of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, researchers are putting locusts into simulated worlds, both virtual and physical, in the hope that they can figure out how devastating swarms form and move. - This is the most uncomfortable I've ever felt while filming, for a few reasons. First, of course, because of the locust swarm itself. Second, because animal research — even on creatures as simple and pestilent as locusts — always raises ethical