#locusts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #locusts, aggregated by home.social.
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📍 Dagestan, Russia
Climate change is helping create the perfect conditions for bigger locust invasions.
Heavy rain brings a sudden explosion of vegetation and breeding, followed by drought that forces them together and triggers swarming.
Their range could expand by up to 25% by 2100, a huge threat to crops and food supplies.
C: @alertarojanot & @volcaholic
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Whatay fascinating article on the sudden disappearance of the Rocky Mountain Locust in the USA:
“The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess”, Thomas Stafford (https://explosion-scratch.github.io/locusts/).
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"Where did your failure bring you to? Back to me..." - Imported Soviet Sparrows entering China after a brutal famine
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"Where did your failure bring you to? Back to me..." - Imported Soviet Sparrows entering China after a brutal famine
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Being "woke" means you won't stand for Pedophiles to go unpunished.
Damn right I'm woke.
#JKRowling #trump #musk #gates #cruel #makechildrenscream #monsters #locusts #epstein #couch
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15-Jan-2026
#LocustSwarms destroy crops. Scientists found a way to stop that -
The new episode of #InTheSwarm is now available for listening. In this #podcast, Yannick Günzel and Inga Petelski talk about #locusts 😊
The #Desert #Swarmers
Most of us have heard of the plague of locusts. But did you know that to this day, desert locust plagues still threaten the food security of millions? In this episode, Yannick Günzel and Inga Petelski will tell us all about how the population density and social order within a locust population can transform shy, solitary locusts into hungry, gregarious ones who are ready to march with millions of their friends to search for the next meal.Available on #Spotify, #YouTube and other streaming platforms!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kUCJGOik9FhnfqZuuWuks
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/public/podcast-in-the-swarm/
@unikonstanz
Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour #CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social -
12. Eleventh presentation is by Arshed Nabeel @arshed.bsky.social on #locusts, #RingAttractors and #collective #movement
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Female #locusts are adapted to depositing #eggs deep into the soil. This study shows that the Tra/Dsx-JHBP pathway regulates expression of two #female-specific proteins that induce #oviposition behavior & highly extensible abdominal intersegmental membranes @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4m6APK5
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Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with keynote talk by Sercan Sayin on #locusts and the behavioural mechanisms governing #CollectiveMotion in #swarming locusts
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Nice start in the second day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) with keynote talk by Einat Couzin-Fuchs on #locusts and the transition from #solitarious to #gregarious states (and vice versa)
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"Locust outbreaks, which cause considerable crop losses, affect a quarter of the world’s population today. In a recent paper, scientists predict the situation will worsen with climate change, and they suggest a way forward by integrating local communities’ knowledge.
Locusts are species of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, which, under certain environmental conditions, can go from being solitary to members of massive, moving swarms. These swarms can travel large distances, destroying crops along the way.
For instance, the paper’s authors describe desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) as among 'the most destructive migratory pests in the world,' with a single swarm of tens of millions moving across 1,200 square kilometers (463 square miles). The 2020 desert locust outbreak in eastern Africa threatened more than 20 million people with the risk of acute food insecurity.
Climate change is expected to make locust outbreaks worse, the authors write, citing studies that show how tropical cyclones, extreme rainfall and its resulting warm and moist soil have triggered several recent desert locust outbreaks. 'Yet, it remains underprioritized in [the] climate space,' they say.
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#Swarm science just got a shake-up! 🦗🦗🦗For decades, #locusts were thought to move like particles but new research indicates they actually use sensory & cognitive mechanisms, not simple alignment. https://www.mpg.de/24278514/0227-ornr-rewriting-the-rules-of-swarming-locusts-987453-x
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Gesehen bei @christophs (Diaspora) und wegen der fehlenden Bildbeschreibung hier noch einmal manuell neu eingestellt.
#Trump #USA #Meme #Locusts # Heuschrecken #just4fun #2025-02-11
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Today: Solar #eruption, a #comet, a #hurricane - what's next? #Locusts? Or these:
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Male #locusts serve as parasols for females during egg laying in the hot sun https://phys.org/news/2024-10-male-locusts-parasols-females-egg.html
Mate-guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4416
"pairs moved in tandem as the sun moved across the sky, staying parallel to its rays. Using thermal cameras showed that the bodies of the females were cooler than those few females not being mounted."
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#Locusts (2005) 🦗
Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered locusts.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite
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New #Ulver album #Locusts is interesting. I find the refrain from #HollywoodBabylon very catchy
> Don't fuck with America
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This locust is about the size of my iPhone, and is moving its head and front legs as if it’s trying to explain to me, an idiot, why it’s blocking the path for my own good.
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#Arkansas #Governor #SarahHuckabeeSanders Did Not Enjoy the #Eclipse
She declared a 14-day #emergency for a 30-minute #Astronomical #event. Presumably to cope with the #locusts, the #frogs, and the day that the #Arkansas #River turns to #blood. Lets not forget the effects of the #Rapture. You have to #thinkahead when you're the #governor.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60433003/arkansas-state-of-emergency-eclipse/
