These Swarming Locusts Are Grasshoppers Gone Wrong

They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction.

These Swarming Locusts Are Grasshoppers Gone Wrong Deep Look

Premiered November 23, 2021
These Swarming Locusts Are Grasshoppers Gone Wrong

They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction. When the conditions are right, they transform from mild-mannered loners into gregarious partiers. They swarm, causing chaos and suffering at the level of a biblical plague. So what sets them off?

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