Locust Invasion - Go Wild

Since man can remember, immense swarms of locusts have regularly descended upon the prairies and fields of Western Africa, leaving in their wake desolate landscapes and destitute populations. Considered to be the eighth plague of Egypt, locust swarms have been known and feared since antiquity. Yet what do we actually know about locusts? What conditions make an apparently inoffensive insect metamorphose into a fearsome superpredator? Do they have some kind of collective intelligence that enables them to swarm? In the film Locust Invasion we follow the French entomologist Antoine Foucard during his last mission to Niger and Mauritania and discover the complexity of this insect and it’s multiple life phases, which until now have been widely unknown.

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This documentary is informative and significant. It is one of the best I have ever seen and supported by first-class photography. Thank you, team, for your fine work.

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[@rgubri3711]

One of the best documentaries i have ever seen. Well shot, edited and the music is perfect to the video. Can be sold to Netflix or Amazon. It is excellent. When i started watching it, I thought I may not watch it more than 10 min, because I thought they are just insects, what is there to know about. But I watched the whole video. Great Narration. Interesting. I cannot express my feelings about this video in my words. Thank You Team.

[@christophervalverde3096]

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[@mariadelaluzvazquez8229]

Thank you for the information and all your hard work to make it.

[@montecagle7680]

The locust swarms hang like shimmering dark clouds on the horizon in some places. Roughly the length of a finger, the insects fly together by the millions and are devouring crops and forcing people in some areas to bodily wade through them. Near the Kenyan town of Isiolo on Thursday, one young camel herder swung a stick at them, with little effect. Others tried to shout them away. I researched the possiblilty of Eating the locoust instead of starving or depending on the UN. Locusts are a type of insect from the family Acrididae and also are known as grasshoppers. Locusts swarm in huge numbers and can travel great distances, causing considerable damage to crops. However, in many African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries, locusts are considered a delicacy and eaten in abundance. Locusts are an excellent source of protein and contain a variety of fatty acids and minerals. Although not considered palatable by most Americans, locusts are an important food source in many other countries. tired of seeing starving children or dying children waiting on the UN to eat. Mark 1:6 don't worry about being shamed by the white man The locoust eat your crops , you eat them. Your sincerly Monte Cagle. Please pass this on and maybe the right people will see and consider this.

[@lagopusvulpuz1571]

Humans don't have the digestive system to digest the exoskeleton & I wouldn't say they are "rich in protein". There's barely any flesh on one individual. Besides these pests carry Pathogens & Parasites that kill people. Bugs aren't part of the human natural diet. There's a reason most humans feel repulsive by just looking at them. Children even cry when they see them. It's against our instincts to eat it for a good reason & many ethnic groups around the world know that, it's Not just "Americans" or "Whites". Starvation causes despair. People would consume anything on such occasions, even cannibalism. It doesn't mean it should be normalized. Besides these bugs don't stop moving, the swarm will move as soon as they finish with an area. They leave you with nothing for a long while & can only satiate a person for a few meals, if they don't kill you by disease. Don't think you were the first one that thought about it.

[@compscript7973]

Interesting: One guy drive hours to find a grasshopper. Meanwhile the camera man gets a closeup of one brushing his antenna to look good for a female while capturing the perfect sound of the antenna being brushed.

[@jackrockliffe1324]

obviously the close up was taken on location

[@violetevergarden9087]

It was helpful and i really enjoyed it...thanks for this beautiful documentary ❣️

[@crittersofearth9914]

locusta migratoria are the brown species that are less commenly sold in the uk now for other pets to eat like lizards etc,but the locusts on this program are the schistocerca gregaria, that are the desert locusts and these are the ones sold all the time in pet stores for reptile food. ive been told these are sold more than the other species because they are more easy to breed quickly. I have kept both species in the past.

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17 ads in a 52 minute video ID like to turn off the ad blocker to give a small bit of support to videos I like but that's just absurd

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Suffering through ads is not "support". Ad blockers 100% of the time!

[@Nitka022]

I am going to turn ON my blocker again.....they destroy the viewing for sure...

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Fast forward to the end and click Replay. I don't know why but it erased all the ads.

[@christophervalverde3096]

@@compscript7973 I'm pretty sure nobody uses cable anymore except for boomers. We don't have cable subscriptions lmao

[@victorjones2506]

Love you and your work:)

[@HuongNguyen-lt9us]

Thank you very much for your hard - working job, scientists. Wish all of you the best. God blesses!

[@AGRIWALLAH143]

Very informative work........... It is very useful to entomology students like me🙂👍👍👍

[@mikevandyke8497]

Beastly work you have here

[@treytiks5359]

Great job done! It was interesting. Thanks to the author.

[@RBLVentures]

Very interesting Good work I wish you luck in your work and thank-you for doing this

[@rezaalbasson7588]

always wanted to know more truth on locust..thank you for the supply,

[@christineluna2552]

The musical score is fantastic!

[@andreasstaufelberg4184]

This is elegant work :)

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Wonderful

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[@gunnar7593]

So unique!

[@Nitka022]

amazing documentary....Thank you for making it and sharing....

[@drakea.5816]

They set up that one grasshopper to get ambushed by that spider. The spider hunts at night, yet they woke him up and told him where Jiminy was at. Unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of the film maker.

[@victoriaelizabeth217]

😂😂🖤🕷

[@jesushitler2000]

Great doc guys subbed !!!!!!! but thats nothin you should see the green fly in my garden

[@nathanstrawbridge887]

Interesting

[@Tammissa]

My goodness these things are huge!

[@shizuokanemoto9410]

So many commercial interruptions means the video is so interesting and worth watching. This video is really great and useful. These small creature can devastate entire populations. So unique that they can be aliens from another planet (hahaha)

[@poldeasis6893]

Hi MABUHAY from the Philppines. Excellent Video. The First apperance of the word Locust in the BIBLE is in Matthew 3. As part of John the Baptist diet. It reminds me of Samson's riddle. "Out of the eater comes forth meat." Eating the locust by John the Baptist demonstrates protest against the lies of the Pharisees that eats the truth of God. Attacking God's garden by spreading lies. LOCUST is parallel to RESTORATION in Joel 2:25 As John the Baptist trumpets REPENTANCE - i have learned from this video the mysterious process of transformation of Locust. God is ready to transform us from being a quiet, loner grasshopper to locust that seeks companies or swarming. Locust in the Old Testament was the 8th of the 10 plague of Egypt. Eight being the number of Restoration and REPENTANCE. It takes 7 days for a week, the 8th day is the new day for another week. Locust in Hebrew is Arbeh means AMBUSH. Similar hebrew spelling for the word Arabia Thanks for this video. I presently studying insects of the Bible and the purpose and their placement. I am greatful i ve found this video.

[@TylerPlaysPingPong]

I need to make one of those insect collecting suction tools!

[@xyooj96]

need more predators to prevent them from reaching critical mass

[@VictorFursov]

Very interesting documentary about locusts. Thank you for video. Best entomological greetings from Ukraine!

[@collinsoconnor5843]

Hello Bandera 🇺🇦?

[@marcotkfowl1305]

Life is incredible

[@Dan-n-Duke-jr2ic]

If they just eat the locusts won't that offset the famine?

[@TylerPlaysPingPong]

Man I love these docs

[@leticiasugianto6509]

Im terrified with locust and grasshoper. The mould scene is like an alien movie

[@sexygeek8996]

They can't do anything to you. I kill them on sight.

[@beyondthehorizon1474]

Like battalions of invading, airborne armour cladded soldiers! Fertiliser? How to attract them en masse to process it during reoccurring devastating infestations, providing harvesting opportunities by recycling their bio mass back into the food production cycle? C.O. 02/Sep/2020

[@konkuruseyyi]

i see a lot of yellow strip on playback bar, were it a groip of locust... nah, it just some ads, a lot of em.

[@yasinwangi3885]

Locust problem is easy to solve. Catch them, fried them and eat, ir simply give them to chicken as food full of protein, and dried insect can last longer as chicken food. Chinese have a more simple way, they let ducks to eat the locusts. Simple and usefull

[@hvwj86]

Locusts are way tasty than any fry chickens. Lol

[@skellingtonmeteoryballoon]

These bugs have been around since before humans

[@needmoreramsay]

Every time is witness something like the moulting and emerging with newly formed wings, I'm convinced of the influence of a divine creator.

[@MirageX123]

Please come to Thailand, they are huge demand for locusts.

[@lkanan3869]

USA would buy all the Locusts you can save. We use this for bass fishing. Get small points to fill the locust in and get a sells market to buy from you. Great bait for fishing.

[@gavinhebert19]

Locusts are one of Mother Earth's ways of fighting back against the human plague. Insects are the most beautiful, perfect, powerful, adaptable and dangerous creatures in the natural world.

[@jasonchui111]

Or maybe we are the top predator that controls the lower rung creatures from overpopulation and wrecking the environment? Eg like wolves controlling deer population or sharks controlling fish population.

[@imyourmaster77]

Disagree. They seem to hit already poor and rural areas. They don't destroy big cities. We need to fight back because they make living in already food insecure parts of the world even more difficult.

[@gavinhebert19]

Humans are eating and killing all life on earth. Poisoning, polluting and destroying all the lands, waters and skies of Nature. As a result, Mother Nature is pissed off and is using The Locust as a warning as well as a form of punishment in order to remind us that we are not above the earth and her creatures.

[@richardque4952]

Is there any solution to combat this?

[@waancfinzeuz191]

Import birds to eat up those mighty bugs!

[@unbanned6175]

I'd love to go there with a tennis racket and go to town xD

[@fymchannel3946]

interesting doc. hello all. #fydomart channel here.

[@pixiewinks6897]

Did anyone else notice they have block symbols on their wings 😳 something is up with this bug

[@RobertoCarlos-ij4ro]

Fritas estan buenas , saben a camaron ....

[@fitzjhen13]

in pampanga and in some parts of mindanao in the philippines locust is a considered a delicacy..adobong locust is best eaten with rice and spicy fried locust is good pulutan with beer.. 👍😜

[@I_V_X]

Those 6 men who sprayed the pesticide probably saved hundreds of lives that day

[@honeybadger8942]

Send the ducks!

[@artiesolomon3292]

Imagine eating your own weight of food every day. An adult locust can do this.

[@bensworld8236]

such a shame with all the stupid ads,hard to get into

[@iwildflower5300]

Drag it all the way to the end first then ur free to watch smoothe

[@tysonpelton7228]

Why so many damn commercials

[@adrianstevens165]

Hungry little guy

[@kolapyellow7631]

How do they know where to go. ? It's a rewarding work when u can solve such big issue for man. Mantis is one of the natural controls. But the locust are so massive in quantity.

[@davidwalker2144]

Why are they so glaton though?😮

[@BBBBey]

GOD!!!

[@paulradel7299]

well we cant be the only species to gather in the milions and destroy everything for no reason

[@solutionsplease]

Just get some Chinese to emigrate there,....fried locust ..yummy

[@noahludford3667]

Shit I've had it it's better than popcorn!!

[@Nitka022]

oooooo yes!!! Brilliant idea! Instead of slaughtering and eating endangered wildlife they should help with this plaque!.....they DO eat insects....full of protein...

[@gingersam851]

The man who invented the synthesiser has a lot to answer for: *crimes against humanity.*

[@Noble-xv6bw]

If you stored your food and protected the crops properly, and agricult more naturally , the life of the creatures that eat that swarm and much more will increase

[@mikemccomb8200]

Ever hear of a flame thower

[@madgermzmuzic]

Everybody gangster until a locust starts to fly .

[@jb-tw6xq]

If the locust doesn't like noise, then why not leave the noise there to send them away from that area.

[@slip8293]

i WONDER IF THEY COULD BE USED AS A RESOURCE LIKE FOOD OR FUEL

[@melflo4651]

Yes, definitely. In Southeast Asia, they gut the locusts, stuff them with peanuts the deep fry them.

[@nneichan9353]

What happened to eliminate the Rocky Mountain locust??

[@williamhiles7404]

Winter of 1887. The North American locust was killed off by massive snow along with prolonged freezing Temps. Same conditions killed off Theodore Roosevelt's cattle in Medora, South Dakota. It's in the history books. LedHed Steven 😁

[@MrLeo1623]

Want to come to Thailand, will set the pan to wait with sauce There is a huge shortage of grasshoppers.Minimal market price of 16.64 dollars per kilogram.

[@msdramamusic]

I got an infestation on my farm of grasshoppers. They are eating everything but none where I live.

[@nyanmako6205]

Locust will be a feast here in Philippines. We eat locust.

[@dejabadejabas]

Schistocerca gregaria, Desert locust

[@rajevsingh2185]

Subhas allah

[@sushanalone]

Exactly what we are doing to Earth. :)

[@noahludford3667]

It's just a catch up game now. The growth outweighs the capacity to provide, then technology catches up. Then knowledge is found, and technology is forced to realign. We're in this phase now, catching up to knowledge. It'll happen, just keep calm.

[@areneesouder]

They look so much like our common grasshopper, what's the difference? Or the main differences? I don't think our locust here in looks as much like grasshoppers as they do. Although these have a touch of a mantis look early on.

[@silence-humility-calmness]

our locust here where? from a shallow google search they are the same line of speciation a grasshopper becomes a locust when they go into plague mode, and in another source it says that locusts is in fact a different line of speciation that are more likely to go into plague mode then grasshopper spieces

[@dontoews6754]

Has diatomaeous earth been tried ?

[@adrianstevens165]

Ive been praying for snow storms 🙏😇 now I know I got them across the continent ,but yet I don't know if God is doing in regardless of my prayers

[@bobbi5782]

Why do not see locust as food, do you

[@glensobrevega1013]

Locust is expensive in mindanao...locust partner in 🍻....yummy.hehe

[@kimberleekohutek9988]

Chickens. Reward for having them eggs and fertilizer

[@sgcanesillegals6440]

Didnt china use ducks to eat them? Get them while they are on the ground!

[@iteerrex8166]

Slow down.. what was that the 4th or 5th video today?

[@mikenel9793]

,PACKAGE THEM LOCUST SELL FOR 10lbs

[@usingThaForce]

Funny how KZbin suppresses Real documentary

[@christianponce4836]

why didnt they just burn the plants instead of using chemicals tho?

[@bensharpe6724]

Can we use an Electrified Mesh attached to a drone to intercept the Locusts in their path?

[@bezbeewelch]

Good idea but it would short out after just one gets clogged in the mesh

[@lsieek]

Locust is source of protein and will be future food. Instead of fearing and killing them, it is not surprising that they will be harvested in near future.

[@gaylefynaut562]

I would think that they would go night hunting while they are molting from their bodies, since they are in the bushes. Net the whole bush and cut it from the bottom. Tie it up and sell them or give to villagers for food. You won’t get them all but a good amount, that can be dried and eaten later.

[@degas3420]

Some things defy understanding...

[@marcotkfowl1305]

Let’s eat them or feed it to animals there is always opportunity even in disasters

[@johnnychavez3740]

Protein. Taste great n crispy.

[@Kebekwoodcraft7375]

Just make a way to catch them all without damaging other species or plants will be nice, and bonne appétit !

[@jasonswanson5770]

Its the star of Bethlehem

[@JoseGarcia-uo5qz]

If this prople are suffering so much because of the locust invasions. Then why no take advantage of the situation and eat the locusts. They are so delicious.

[@mikewhitaker2306]

If the locusts eat all your crops then you can eat the Locust

[@charleneknighton]

If they know this, why don't they spray them before they destroy the farmers fields?

[@noahludford3667]

It's not culpable, the lasting effects outweighs the capacity to control at a certain point.

[@bryanliggett3257]

Catch and eat grasshoppers there's 70% protein it's a blessing in disguise for those starving people

[@sidneo14]

For your information Niger is one of the top exporter of protein in west Africa cows ,goats ,sheep poultry. And fried locust is also on the local menu as delicacies for generations in the region along with shea tree caterpillar and flying termites . That's one of the source of inspiration for promoters of insects based protein trend.dried and fried locust is sold in 50 kilos bags in african markets for few dollars . If you ever witness a locust swarm you will understand the labor involved in catching or netting them. Its hard work even for hugely motivated ducks and 🐔 armies let alone carb deficient people.

[@ruthsalazar5568]

Time to eat this insecten.

[@ayannacooper1871]

The book of revelations will explain!!

[@adrianstevens165]

Lately I've been praying for snow storms 🙏

[@deancappetta1631]

Mankill a plague?