Sentences with phrase «swarming locusts»

Nor is it helpful to explain the incessant movement of swarming locusts by talk of a «locomotory drive».

When the youngof swarming locusts hatch, they, too, are swarming locusts.

Of the approximately 8,000 species of grasshoppers, only about 10 of them are likely to morph into swarming locusts, Burrows says.

«They eat everything in sight,» says Sean Mullen, an assistant professor of evolutionary genetics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., about swarming locusts.

What makes harmless little green grasshoppers turn into brown, crop - chomping clouds of swarming locusts?

Joel, who saw in an army of locusts a reflection of the judgment of God, also saw healing: «Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning... I will return to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten.»

The mechanisms behind the behavioral change fromsolitary grasshopper to swarming locust are not well understood.

«So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.»

Not exact matches

Deutsche Boerse's Chief Executive Werner Seifert once called TCI's Chris Hohn the leader of a swarm of locusts in a book about the exchange's battle with the hedge fund.

The locust — ארבה arbeh, either from ארב arab, to lie in wait or in ambush, because often immense flights of them suddenly alight upon the fields, vineyards, etc., and destroy all the produce of the earth; or from רבה rabah, he multiplied, because of their prodigious swarms.

Swarms of armour clad locusts with the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of a scorpion with bring stingy, paralyzing pain to all!

Five minutes after Norway's King Olav took his rail seat, accompanied by his beautiful daughter, Princess Astrid, the Russians were swarming over the Canadians like locusts.

The Tuareg rebellion resulted in the destruction of computers used to monitor the swarms of invading desert locusts emanating from neighbouring Algeria and Libya.

The ability of these locusts to eat the country's food supplies is astonishing — each swarm consumes 2,500 times the average amount of food eaten by humans.

Like other locusts, desert locusts can switch from a solitary phase with low population densities during recessions (periods of calm), to a gregarious phase with high population densities during invasions, when hopper bands and swarms can devastate agriculture.

A nuisance, but not a danger While often confused with locusts — grasshoppers in a specific swarming phase — cicadas threaten neither humans or their food supplies.

Huge swarms of desert locusts have devastated crops in Africa, Asia, and Europe since biblical times, but no mortals have been able to predict when they will strike.

Now a new computer model, reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, appears to mimic how solitary locusts gang up and begin to swarm.

The new findings could help pest control officials locate nascent locust swarms before they get off the ground.

Recognizing areas with patchy vegetation could also help pest control agencies to identify where locust swarms might originate.

Swarms of desert locusts rampaged across West Africa this year, stripping crops and crippling countries already hit by food shortages.

Researchers have known for some time that swarm formation results when the locusts become crowded.

At a certain point of density, the swarm - inducing serotonin gets triggered and the locusts set off en masse to find greener pastures.

Regardless of why the parasites prevent swarming, the team says countries fighting locust infestations could make use of P. locustae's swarm - stopping tricks in place of existing insecticides.

An analysis of the infected locust scat found fewer swarm - inducing pheromones.

Healthy locusts placed in chambers containing scat from the infected locusts were significantly less likely to display swarming behavior than were those placed in a chamber with scat from healthy locusts, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A team led by entomologist Wangpeng Shi of China Agricultural University in Beijing noticed that migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria manilensis) infected by a microbe known as Paranosema locustae were less likely to aggregate into swarms than were their healthy counterparts.

P. locustae spreads from one locust to another through fecal matter consumption, cannibalism, and reproduction — all of which occur more frequently when the locusts swarm.

He notes that locusts also signal one another to swarm by physically touching antennas, a process the parasite doesn't interfere with.

Additionally, the researchers found that infected locusts produced lower levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin, which can initiate swarming behavior, and dopamine, which can sustain the behavior.

A moving band of locusts now covers 23 000 square metres of northwestern Somalia, and four swarms are flying south from the area.

Even though existing North American grasshopperspecies don't migrate as readily as the Rocky Mountain locust did, someof them do swarm in less dramatic migrations.

Swarms of locusts — giant flying species ofgrasshoppers — are a traveling variation on this phenomenon and dominatea wide swath of this planet almost every year.

It's such hunger thatdrives a locust swarm.

For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything.

By itself, the migratory locust is pretty harmless, but it can assemble with billions of its buddies into apocalyptic swarms that destroy thousands of hectares of crops.

High - protein plants inhibit locust swarming, which explains why grazed systems are more prone to outbreaks.

Then a locust swarm swept through the village she was working in as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, and in a few hours it stripped the bark and leaves from hundreds of seedlings she was growing for her forestry project and gobbled almost everything else green in the area.

They might make mosquitoes resistant to the microbes that cause malaria or dengue fever, or even block the gene that makes locusts swarm, saving millions of tons of crops every year.

A gene drive that prevents locusts from swarming, benefitting farmers, might jump to bees, threatening their ability to pollinate and produce honey.

When filmed in reverse, they look like a swarm of locusts taking flight.

The Mardi Gras World party was an operational disaster, the pub crawl almost as bad, and I heard the Samhain «Sinners and Saints» party looked like a swarm of locusts swept it bare less than fifteen minutes after opening.

Chorus Swarms of placemen and pensioners soon will appear Like locusts deforming the charms of the year; Suns vainly will rise, showers vainly descend, If we are to drudge for what others shall defend.

«For weeks countless swarms of locusts, brown - black and brick - yellow, darkened the air like ash from a great conflagration, their jaws biting all things for what could be eaten.»

My 17 - year - old son Ben and his buddies can clean out a kitchen faster than a swarm of hungry locusts can scour clean a barley field.

Time to find uncle, discover swarm / locust Origins, etc. plenty they can fix and revive it as I actually enjoyed 4, just not as much as originals (similar to Halo).

Unfortunately, in the process, developer Neverland overlooked the locusts that came swarming in at the same time.

In the single player campaign swarming hordes of increasingly dangerous Locusts and Lambent, the alien threats, are held back with a partner.

If you stop to smell the flowers too often, be prepared to be chewed up by the hungry swarm of here - today - gone - tomorrow locust - like commission chasers.