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

607K views · 2.2K reactions | Vast hordes of locusts that swarm the grasslands of rural Queensland, Australia are filmed smashing against the windshield of a motorist. The Australian Plague Locust Commission said the grasshopper population could increase to plague proportions if conditions like good rain and healthy vegetation continue in the next few months. | ABC7 News | Facebook