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- Stunning footage of one of Planet Earth's greatest spectacles, the swarm of the Desert Locust - Eggs that have remained in the ground for twenty years now begin to hatch. Considering that an adult Locust can eat its entire body weight everyday, it's hardly surprising that a huge plague measuring 40 miles wide will devour everything in its path. Subscribe: bit.ly/BBCEarthSub
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I now understand why they were one of the 10 plagues
@Joshua Salem locust were plague number 8.
@@peacefulwife5199 he said that its one of the 10, not that it was the 10th.
What plagues
Oh i forgot to put a period so it fits.
There thsts better.
Imagine seeing 40 miles worth of insects flying in your direction. That would be fricken' terrifying
@@incognitodon5779 Unless you are a farmer on holiday
I hate it when a wasp flies into the room id probably have a heart attack if all them flew in lol 🤣
They poop while flying and yes whole city smells shit after they are gone
Hans get ze flammenwerfer
It disturbs, but they don't touch you. I had an identical experience in Saudi Arabia in 1978.
"They will consume every edible thing that lies in their path"
Army ants: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
The locusts are huey helicopters. The ants are ground troops.
@@amv062184 there are more troops than there are helis, eventually the locusts would still be defeated
Wow very nice idea, somebody should create movie about a bug's life, it might breaks the cinema
now imagine if we put them all in the same place and wait
The fact that this comment is actually a series on Disney plus now lol “a real bugs life”
Here’s my main 2 thoughts
1) imagine how hyped a hawk would be to see a swarm of locusts
2) imagine if locusts were predatory and swarmed animals...
@hayven adventurer exactly
Horror movie in the making
@@tyusbrooks9997 what is it called?
@@Yourlocalhumbug swarm.
No wonder the ancient people thought a locust swarm was divine punishment or the work of the devil. I would also freak out if I see so many insects seemingly popping out of nowhere.
No devil my friend that’s an excuse you don’t take care this planet their will be consecuencias 🤔🤷♂️that simple
I bet you believe the locust and the bull shark evolved from a puddle of muddy water huh?
Locusts are faithful servants to Yahuah, the Creator of heaven and earth! He has used them in the past to plague Egypt to free His people. It is written the the Word of God!
I mean, locusts were treated like a plague. A swarm of them is literally referred to as such in Exodus. They were swift, deadly, and left devastation in their wake. To them, only a god could bring about such destruction. Those insects were seen as pure evil.
I kind of find it funny how there were characterised as pure evil because it's only a matter of perspective. For how species-centric humans are, they seem so, but if the holy texts were written by birds, then they would be a divine blessing. I think it highlights the subjective nature of religions (or the people that created them).
Narrator: "They will consume every edible thing, that lies in their path."
Camera guy literally being eaten alive: "Haha stupid plants"
We all know the camera guy never dies
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@@undercoverkakyoin6955
Locusts: this field looks delicious
Thai people: and you look yummy yummy too 😂
Ion get why they dont just eat the locust
Now this is what my DIY flamethrower has been waiting for!
Yeah that'd be fun but it wouldn't put a dent in the swarm
@@Nathan-oe8ut uuuuií
Gina?
Ha ha ha let er rip.
I hate these little bastards
N word :)
I'd be hungry too if I was in the ground for 20yrs lol
No, those are cicadas. Locust are basically just grasshoppers
@@hip-pie2344 your a example of a insect expert say you have a butterfly garden ?
@@hip-pie2344 idiot cicadas live under ground for 13 or 17 years. Locusts swarm when food is abundant which can take years.
@@naturespecialist1489 No
@@AquaticFlapper125 You're a moron. Learn to read and comprehend properly.
40 miles of locusts! Yeesh
spyroninja. And there are over 90 billion of them.
@White Rice Put down the mirror and take a deep breath
@White Rice You are the only one here worthy of life, excluding me.
Just burn the GD place down w flameguns.
@@OST1350he said SEVERAL billion idk where you got the 90 from!!😳😳
Now imagine a giant electric fly swatter...
TeKaMOTO that would be the most satisfying thing ever.
TeKaMOTO attached to an apache helicopter 🙄.
Nilesh Koley with a giant blender/grinder underneath
Laurence Liu and the bodies will be dump in a volcano
There is a electric fly tennis racket shaped thing, I had one for camp and I was dancing around murdering hundreds of flies, oh I wish I still had it
"Hans, get ze flammenwerfer!"
Haha
It werfs flammen!
won't help the plants much either :D
"ja, herr kommandant"
ok danke
I would really like to see the way things look after the swarm has passed by... records of how nature recovers, life is still here.
It looks like a freshly shaved head
Fear not the dark my friend. And let the feast... Begin.
kek
Rorik Savant Git gud
That is best Dark Souls 3 reference ever.
The night is dark and full of terrors
One was a wayfaring knight, on an endless, forbidden search.
Only the Abyss granted closure, if not reunion with his beloved.
A farmers worst nightmare
If your in Africa
You Shutup
:(
Aww, you can keep on talking :)
I heard that they can even chew through the muslin netting that farmers put up! Now that's really something!
"The steady road of a billion beating locust wings will once again be replace by nothing more than the sound of the desert wind" favourite line 🌸
Everyone : talking about locust
Me : how the hell did they record this
Idk
Probably with a camera
Drone
They usually just set it up in a shed with a fake background screen and controlled bugs but this one is definitely up close in nature. I guess the camera man has subscribed for camera man immortality insurance?
@@warbler1984 ffs
They look like full size birds when they fly..
Generic Cereal There are some species that can grow more Than the Palm of your hand.
Acituanbus and they bite like a mantis
Where I live there's a grasshopper called the gray bird grasshopper, I think the name is explanation enough.
just be glad theyre not carnivores...
Actually some species are
Melissa Dodge Chicken.
I recently read "Locust", by Jeffrey A. Lockwood, a scholarly book on the search for what happened to the Rocky Mountain locust, the scourge of the plains until they suddenly disappeared. In their heyday, the swarms were so dense that a farmer could get lost on his way to his barn. I tried to find the reports on the munching habits of the locust, but even with a detailed index, I ccouldn't find in the almost 300 pages the passage I wanted. But I do remember that the locusts would completely eat the wooden handles of tools left outside, down to nothing, and any fabrics left out (cotton, wool, linen), and they would bite horses, mules, cows until they bled. They didn't exactly eat them, but they sure did "taste" them.
hahahaha totally
Viridis Lux I need a movie of this
They can actually cause famine. Happened many times in history.
@@magnusemeritus That would work short term, long term damage will still cause famines
@@magnusemeritus They keep moving, So you get a couple of meals instead of your crops. This is a millennia old problem you are not the first smart guy in the planet that thought about it, obviously it did not work out.
@@magnusemeritus crops last a lot longer
@@magnusemeritus This is so dumb, they aren't "rich in protein", cause we can't digest the exoskeleton & it's not part of our natural diet besides carrying pathogens & parasites that kill people. People who are desperate and eat them end up malnourished, if not dead. Besides being a short term "solution".
“They will consume every edible thing that lies in their path”
Sounds like my family at an all you can eat buffet.
Lmao mine too
I think it would be fun to meet the swarm with some flamethrowers
A hundred flamethrower would barely dent their numbers.
Also, they are edible and a source of food/protein for many peoples.
Hans , get ze flammenwerfer
Napalm bombs would take care of it!
Andrii Antonyuk oyy i was going to out that lol
Huh, it is not a problem. We just need to send Bear Grylls there and he will have eaten them all by his third dinner.
ConradInternational this comment is gold👌
Linh Nguyen zljmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
ConradInternational wow. a lot of locusts. BUT NOW IT'S MY LUNCH.
Bear Grylls really is overrated.
ConradInternational Coyote Peterson**
If I was in The middle of this, i would set myself on fire .
Human torch
Smart, that way they won't touch you but you will dis
Edit: this comment is cringy and garbage, I don't know why I left it here, it's just pointing out the obvious, maybe because I was tired or something I have a lot of exams
@@addictedtofamilyguy7627 "Smart, that way they won't touch you but you will dis" >> "...won't touch you but you will dis" >> "dis"
dis
dis is
dis is a story all about how
my life got flipped-turned upside down and I liked to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air In west Philadelphia born and raised on the playground was where I spent most of my days chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool and all shootin some b-ball outside of the school when a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared she said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air' I begged and pleaded with her day after day but she packed my suite case and send me on my way she gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket. I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'. First class, yo this is bad drinking orang juice out of a champagne glass. Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like? hmm this might be alright. But wait I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, all that Is Bel-Air the type of place they end this cool cat? I don't think so I'll see when I get there I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air well uh the plane landed and when I came out there was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out I ain't trying to get arrested yet I just got here I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror if anything I can say this cab is rare but I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air' I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo, homes smell ya later' I looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
The camel was just like whatever typical Tuesday afternoon
Locusts are great delicacy, protein of the highest quality, very clean as well due to their diet.
This video reminds me of the time my Family members came over
When you're at a college party
lol relate
”They will consume everything edible in their path”
2:51
Bear Gryll: Its protein, lots of protein.
Thanks for perfect advice-waste can be changed to wealth-a person can harvest 15kg day@2000rs-healthy income in poor country-it is excellent protein feed(poultry)-an alternative to soybean
And this is the only solution-UN 's chemical practice is theoretically wrong
Chinese are cultivating them as a food n feed
😂
🤣😂
"Hippity hoppity every plant is my property".
- El Locust
Perfect
Comment section cancer
Locust: **is hungry**
Plants: “god damn it wish I could walk”
Evan Sokolson *run*
@@wackyantman5893 *fly*
@@cheesemate9141 *scream*
@@Pringle2 *see*
@@othello8135 I think that's the one they'd want the least
Absolutely frightening. They must be a living nightmare to those who depend on crops.
That's why they make netting.
not in thailand tho the farmer wish they will come in thailand
U mean us?
Uhuu now i get why my mum used to call me Locust when i was younger, our fridge was constantly empty
Hah.. bet youre fat
😄😮Very funny😂
@@guyvalefor6016 👌
😂😂😂😂
Jad 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm gonna build the biggest flamethrower the North has ever seen!
Except the burning locsests will fall on the grass and cause a wildfire
@@Mr.clean666 worth it
@@randomchannel2373 sorry for being a buzzkill
How to survive locusts: Be the camera man.
Bear Grylls : Just Invite Me For Lunch
Locusts only eat grass no meat or man there are so many in pakistan these days its dangerous for field
The camera man thing is already getting annoying
@@Fukra088 that was just a joke
The time a swarm locusts ate the whole rice fields.
Birds: *Sees Swarm of Locust*
Also Birds: *It's free real estate*
Well the same thing happened in China when they killed a specific type of bird
Tis insect buffet!!
They are toxic when in swarm
Indeed
Yes
"Nothing more than the sound of the desert wind". Attenborough Sir. You add poetry to the wildlife.
hoy moly that's terrifying, they look like a bunch a baby spiders just swarming everything
"hey look, it's an amazing year!"
"yeah..
Let's make it terrible"
NO ONE CAN STOP ZERG RUSH
케이크초콜렛 Yeah, it looks like Zerg Rush to me lol
Jaedong strikes!
케이크초콜렛 op as hell
Hans! Get zeh HONEY BADGER!
Looks like a dark swarm to me :)
Me seeing just one locust: *freaks out*
Me seeing a swarm of locust: *passes out*
We need a support group
I'm with you bro they too scary😂😂😂😂😂
I rather commit die then get touched by that...
Same here bro there's 1 in my house now an i don't know how to kill it
@@jaredgaming4k
Too late to help but you can eat them.
Fried locust tastes like shrimp with lime juice.
Not my words,just something that u was told by someone else who tried this thing cause apparently they are one of the potential food sources for humans in the future.
For the most satisfaction,remove their gross parts like legs,head etc.Kinda like how a chicken's innards,skin etc are removed before cooking and eating one.
Edit:I don't remember all of it but I think markiplier tried to eat it too,on unus annus channel.Apparently their chips made from them that are very normal to eat.
(Aside from the gross feeling of eating an insect ofc.)
I love the "English" versions of these nature shows.
No long talking, no switching cameras constantly, great footage, and things you really want to find out about.
So interesting. I currently am fighting off lubber grasshoppers, which are not locusts, but man, they do a hell of a job in a small garden.
Remind me of my childhood where i used to collect each kind of them.
Attenborough's voice on those closing lines is pure gold. As always, after all :)
they will become top soil once they are dead...and tht will flourish the earth again,cycle of life...
boing bryan what if they go and die somewhere else, where there's lush green and life instead of the semi-desert?!
that somewhere else will have top soil and will flourish that somewhere else, which the earth again, cycle of life wait what
DaiMonAlex I'm saying if the locusts overgraze whatever vegetation a semi-desert has and after that they fly to die in the tropical forests, how will the desert gain?!
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boing bryan Not exactly. There are still humans and honeybees
Something tells me that ever since I saw bug's Life a long time ago I don't think Hoppers are regular normal grasshopper. I think according to my thought and to this cyclopedia I think Hopper is a locust. Reason why he wants to attack the colony and enslave them is because he thinks that his ancestors from Egypt are good at creating a locust plague around innocent people and insects.
Just waiting for this so I can finally use my Flamethrower
The eggs remained in the ground for 20 years? Were they frozen?
Golden Trout yea, that's what confused me. had to rewatch
Dormant, almost all development halted to a stop, with the mere minimum kept going just so they don't die, until conditions are right enough to go and eat.
as a foreigner, I thought I misunderstood that part
YESS THIS IS WRONGG...
"The incubation period before the eggs hatch may be two weeks or much longer, depending on the temperature" but not 20 years..
The longest life cycle in Insecta Class is cicada,, thought its not 20 years too
The eggs can hibernate until conditions are more favorable....
0:18 SPOT THE SHINY DESERT LOCUST
If you catch it you get 2 times the score for 30 seconds
Emerald locust
Is it the yellow locust?
Gotta catch em all!
Hold my master ball !
The locusts been waiting for their 20h annual Black Friday but instead of buying anything, they’re eating everything.
During one summer of locusts in Wyoming grasshoppers were so hungry some ate curls of peeling latex paint from the sides of buildings.
No wonder ppl in ancient times took them as a sign God was ending everything.
Why not eat the locusts if they eat our food.
I just thought the same thing
@@marieredd7693 do you really think people in ancient times were more different than us ? 😂😂
Infact I am pretty sure they were more attached to nature unlike us who don't even live on earth lol
I saw like a 100 comments like this even in 2020 when there were only 124 comments in the video
@Leo G there’s a reason you guys started corona
Who is here after Kenya attack
Me too.
😢😢😢😢😢
Mimi apa
🙋
Mimi pekee hata naogopa kueka wallpaper iko na matawi ya green I might end up loosing everything in my phone
Imagine the satisfaction of using a flamethrower against them...
(Joy mm
Why?
Imagine shining a brightest laser that could disintegrate these pests.
Considering they fly into the wind, you'd have to be careful which direction you're pointing it or the only thing that will happen is you getting pelted with burning locusts and potentially setting yourself on fire which I think would be quite unsatisfying.
@@kylepessell1350 The video said they fly with the wind, which is the opposite of flying into it. Flying wherever the wind takes them saves energy. So there wouldn't be any risk of being pelted with burning locusts.
I remember as a kid in the 90s, my introduction to locusts was watching Land Before Time 5. They were called “swarming leaf-gobblers” causing famine in the Great Valley.
Absolutely amazing to see! But I think we forget that such enormous gatherings of locust, though spectacular, can be absolutely devastating to local farmer on Madagascar and potentially even for some wild animals.
Compared to what humans do both to eachother and wild animals, this is nothing.
Bookhead714 No, he has a point. Yes locust can devastate entire crops, kill off large portions of food, and cause some animals to stave but they haven't been directly responsible for the extinction of entire species to such a large scale that scientist have a name for it and are calling it the Holocene Extinction.
Nope, locust have been around for hundred thousands of years. we are here for just a blink on earth and did more damage to the planet than any life form ever. like a bunch of spoiled, arrogant and ignorant drunk kids playing on the surface of a planet slowly killing it due to greed and selfish needs. we are human beings and in control, but thats why being responsible to preserve nature is necessary. for our own survival as well as for others.
They are a rare surplus good food source opportunity for the local wildlife that will eat insects.
Their used to be periodic locust swarms like this in North America, but since so many of their larvae have been killed due to cultivation, there hasn't been a big swarm in a long time.
Good, fuck them.
I think there’s some in Mexico.
yea we have mainly cicadas now which are chill
they were near my home yesterday, they even can't leave trees. Not a single leaf they left😪
If you look closely you can see ramses II breaking chairs with primal rage
ROFL
😂😂
İ didnt get it
Locust:
Ant: Finally a worthy opponent
This is war
Bees: WE ARE DOOMED!
Wasps: My time has come
Termites:(Astronomia plays)
This video reminds me of the days when my friends come over my place.
What are „friends“?
In my place people eats locust. I tried it myself, they are actually delicious.
Egypt: Hey, I’ve seen this one!
>tiny insects breach the horizon
*helicopter noises*
My body is itching just by watching this ...😩
I take it that you've never played with grasshoppers.
@@BillPurkayastha yeah I played with them when I was a kid.
@@AbdulBasit-it7ff I still play with them, after checking that it's a grasshopper and not a katydid. Katydids have one hell of a bite.
Same to you
never seen and heard of such thing in my life until today
This made my skin itch.
It's like a black friday for locusts
Boy oh boy!
Sky prawns for lunch for the next 2 months!
these are always fantastic... david makes it extra fire
My inner mind be like: "I is scarred for life now."
187 Egyptians disliked this video
😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
@@nelly2523 why any idea plz? ??
Machindra khapung plagues of Egypt it think
Yes, Egyptians dislike this video. But Moses said that: God will send another great Prophet like me among them(Egyptians). Deut18:18
So this one has the power to strike back the plague. Rev11:4-6
Moses brought locusts. Now locusts are being send to where it come from. Locusts come from East to from west, now locusts are going back from west to east. Exod10:12-19
You will see more miracles until people bow down
"And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, *the east wind brought the locusts.* And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt."
No Neem trees back in the 'ol days...
Dang nematodes
@Darkzz Lord Circular reasoning atheist. Prove it's a fairy tale, and also prove anything religious is more miraculous than the atheist creation myth, and atheist alchemy, of life from non-life. Religion says life comes from life, consistent with science, and you say "MADNESS!" The establishment merely asserts that life came from non-life, and you say "SCIENCE!" Hypocrite and gullible statistic.
God is great! :-)
Reading Revelation 9
When i was a kid, i put those into the spinning air vents outside, so hopefully i dont regret that... ☠
they’re actually really gorgeous despite the harm they do
I send the swarm
I send the horde
Thus saith the Lord
Prince of Egypt soundtrack love it!
Doesn’t that mean god has a bigger kill count than the devil?
@@arashparthian_112 are you dumb?
Layden Parques I’m technically right tho
@@arashparthian_112 in fact your aren't nigga!.. Not to sound rude and stuff but you need jesus and grace bro. PEACE!
Locusts: A frogs biggest dream lol
They are back again in 2020
BEFORE THEM A GARDEN ; BEHIND THEM A DESERT!!!V.W.
wow in the ground for 20 years!
For Nature is green and full of terrors
honestly this locust swarm is not as bombastic as I thought it would be
And when they all die?
Bro imagine the sight, and all that biomass to feed everyhting around it.
Idk, once their cycle is completed, eggs laid and all, we could come up with a way to harnest them somehow, it's literally thousands of tons of food...
just in time for Passover
Wow, incredible.
The crunching sound they make when they eat makes me wanna go there and bite those plants too
Now imagine a swarm of mantises flying there
Would be nice to see a timelapse of vegetation being devoured by locusts.
thank god they dont eat meat
yet
arte0021 of course not
arte0021 i thought they eat everything
They do eat meat, insect meat, but not human meat unless the human is dead.
they eat other small animal so they eat meat
Locusts swarm- Exists*
Every plant in a 20 mile and on Radius- Why do I hear Boss Music?
Someone didn’t return the slab and is suffering from its curse
They didn’t get a good enough offer
GET INSIDEEEEEE
In cases like these u just gotta take one of those pavement rollers and crush everything lol
Leave nature alone. 👍
@@GilbyMinaj yay, no more veggatable to eat
now everyone starve
Billions of them and they are so much less destructive than humans are.
who has a flame thrower when you need one
This gave me goosebumps.
* gets the flamethrower out **
Parker Myers wouldn’t do a damn thing , too many.
Once the food has gone the steady war of a billion beating locust wings is replaced by desert wind!
Edit - These Swarms decided to do that in INDIA!
You Haven't Edited it yet!
Love locusts
All they need to thrive is a large aquarium tank (mesh roof) with sand & lots of twigs/branches to climb on. Plus a good heat/light source (infra-red bulb placed just above the roof-mesh is ideal, not inside the tank) since they cannot digest food at room temperature (have it turned on during the daytime & switch off at night to mimic desert conditions). They eat fresh washed greens once a day (lettuce, kale, spinach etc). Most live upto half a year kept this way & they actually make really good pets. I encourage more people to rescue them from just being a food-source & give them a chance.
You fool, you're only helping them spread their army
Kill them with fire before they devour your house
Sounds amazing. Unfortunately I have entomophobia but I wish I didn’t. I try not to kill insects but I hate having them around me.
If you can’t beat them, eat them.
So sweet and sour sauce maybe?
Same happened here in some areas of Rajasthan(desert state of India) this monsoon.There were lakhs of them all over in the city .Entering houses,markets,mall etc.
Locust are impressive to see until one jumps to your face.
why so many ppl hate them? cute little animals, they can nothing for their hunger...