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In the Book of Exodus, the Plagues of Egypt (Hebrew: מכות מצרים ) are ten disasters that Yahweh inflicts on the Egyptians to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting the Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; [1] they serve as "signs and marvels" given by Yahweh in response to the Pharaoh's ...
Plagues of Egypt: Not verified Egypt: Desert locust: Locust Plague of 1874: 1874 United States: Rocky Mountain locust: Albert's swarm: 1875 United States: 3.5 – 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locust: 1915 Ottoman Syria locust infestation: 1915 Israel, Lebanon, and Syria: 2003–2005 Africa locust infestation: 2003–05 West Africa 2013 ...
The transformation of the locust to the swarming form is induced by several contacts per minute over a four-hour period. [11] A large swarm can consist of billions of locusts spread out over an area of thousands of square kilometres, with a population of up to 80 million per square kilometre (200 million per square mile). [12]
Locust swarms had infested 23 countries by April 2020. East Africa was the epicenter of the locust crisis—with Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda among the affected countries. However, the locusts had traveled far, wiping out crops in Pakistan and damaging farms in Yemen, a fragile country already hit hard by years of conflict.
A mathematical model of locust swarms could help in the development of new strategies to control their devastating migration.
The desert locust is a species of orthopteran in the family Acrididae, subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. [2] There are two subspecies, one called Schistocerca gregaria gregaria, the better known and of huge economic importance, located north of the equator, and the other, Schistocerca gregaria flaviventris, [9] [10] which has a smaller range in south-west Africa and is of less economic importance ...
One swarm in Morocco between Tarfaya and Tan-Tan was 230 km long, at least 150 m wide, and contained an estimated 69 billion locusts, which were being used as a food resource by 33 species of birds (Ullman 2006). Swarms also invaded Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, southern Portugal, and Crete. Lack of rain and cold temperatures in the winter ...
Millions of locusts swarm over the lush fields of Egypt, destroying its food supplies. Destructive locusts also appear in the New Testament in the symbolic and apocalyptic book of Revelation. West's use of "locust" in his title evokes images of destruction and a land stripped bare of anything green and living.