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.

[IMADALBASRII]

Thanks what great work
The YouTube become annoying by these ads

[neilmckittrick]

I'm 63 year old lady n love watching docos... especially when so informative n wonderful to able to find out this valuable information to be there.. great job peoples . :)

[compscript]

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.

[bessiebell]

This was a wild documentary to watch...thank u so much 4 sharing... everything was so well done...I learn so much from yalls documentaries...thank u

[cschrack]

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

[bryanwalker]

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.

[mariadelaluzvazquez]

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

[violetevergarden]

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

[treytiks]

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

[AGRIWALLAH]

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

[rgubri]

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.

[montecagle]

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.

[HuongNguyen-ltus]

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

[rezaalbasson]

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

[demig]

Amazing 19 ads, record so far
thank you

[crittersofearth]

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.

[jesushitler]

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

[shizuokanemoto]

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)

[drakea.]

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.