locust swarm
Crop-destroying insect mass
A locust swarm is a massive aggregation of locusts—grasshoppers that have entered a gregarious phase—moving together and devouring vegetation in their path.
Swarms can contain billions of insects covering hundreds of square miles, stripping crops and pastures bare within hours.
The term appears in biblical and apocalyptic contexts as a symbol of devastating, unstoppable destruction: The locusts descended on the fields like a plague.
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- Old TestamentPre-Christian biblical canon
- grasshopperJumping insect, long legs
- infestationPest takeover situation
- biblicalOf sacred texts
crop · crop damage · devastation · buzzing · hunger · migration · famine · Egypt · cloud · dark cloud · devour · field · harvest · cicada · destruction · horde · wings · agricultural
- insect alienshive mind, praying mantis
- bug encountersbee sting, mosquito bite, ant bite, wasp sting, bug bite
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- natural disastersearthquake, tornado, hurricane, tsunami, volcanic eruption
- Swarms
- farm disasterscrop failure, crop blight, failed harvest, drought, livestock disease
locust swarmbountiful harvest
Exceptionally productive growing season
bumper crop · granary · breadbasket · fertile land · beneficial insects
locust swarmdivine blessing
Sacred favor from deity
manna from heaven · horn of plenty · cornucopia · providence · good omen