Locust Plague Devours 40,000 Tonnes of Vegetation When crops are plentiful, locusts have a unique hunting technique: they create a plague-like swarm up to a kilometre long, destroying all the vegetation in their path. #EarthsTropicalIslands | BBC Earth

Eastern Africa is dealing with massive swarms of desert locusts that have already devastated its crops. The locust infestation is now moving across the horn of Africa into the middle east and south Asia where the insects are now devouring food supplies across continents. | Skywatch Media