locust swarms
Crop-destroying insect masses
Locust swarms are massive aggregations of locusts—grasshoppers that have entered a gregarious phase—moving together and devouring vegetation.
A single swarm can contain billions of insects and strip fields bare in hours.
The term extends to any overwhelming infestation: Locust swarms of tourists descended on the village.
- famineSevere food shortage
- flockingGathering in crowds
- invasive speciesHarmful non-native organism
- plague of locustsMass insect agricultural disaster
- pheromonesSpecies-specific chemical messengers
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- airborne lifedragonflies, gnats, mayflies, midges, bird migration
- insect migrationmonarch butterfly, painted lady, locusts, dragonflies, long-distance travel
- insect ecologypollination, herbivory, mutualism, coevolution, symbiosis
- insect swarmingbee swarms, winged termites
- insectsant, ants, bee, bees, butterfly
- disastersdisaster, earthquake, earthquakes, catastrophe, floods
locust swarmsbountiful harvest
Exceptionally productive growing season
bumper crop · lush greenery · beneficial insects · verdant landscape · honey bees
locust swarmsmanna from heaven
Unexpected divine provision
divine blessing · land of milk and honey · promised land · cornucopia · horn of plenty