Famous, and God, Blessed and Exalted be He, sent it to the people of Pharaoh in an unusual way, so it covered the green - the earth - and blocked the sunlight due to its abundance, and did not leave plants for them. Or fruit or trees, until it was said that he used to eat the nails of iron doors until they broke their homes.
In the honorable hadith, the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, used to say:
O God, destroy the old ones, kill the young ones, spoil their eggs, cut off their backs, and seize their mouths from our livelihoods and our livelihoods. You are the Hearer of supplication.” A man said: O Messenger of God, how do you pray against an army of God's soldiers to cut off its back? He said: The locusts are the droppings of a whale in the sea
Locusts fly long distances
A single locust may travel a hundred kilometers a day, and travel three hundred and fifty kilometers a month, with the muscular ability that enables it to flap its wings for up to sixteen hours a day. One locust eats twice its weight per day. The swarm contains millions of locusts. Swarms of locusts fly in the air at night on plants and sit on trees to devour quantities of food that help them resume the flight the next morning. The best time to fight locust swarms is after sunset, according to. Entomologists. In the morning the sun rises and the swarms sit on the plants feeling warm, so they begin to shake their wings, then fly away from them, traveling limited distances within the spreading area, and when the air temperature rises, the locusts ride. The air currents of the convection, as they fly upwards and thus the front of the swarm begins to fly in the spreading area, while the rest of the swarm groups remain in a crouched state, and this represents the rear of the swarm, and this background does not take off even after the swarm takes its destination, the front flies before the rear, and after the temperature reaches the maximum degree in the place from (23-40 degrees Celsius), then The entire squadron flies through the air. There are two swarms of flying locusts.
The herd class is shown as a flat area
It consists of interconnected individuals of locusts. This type of swarm of locusts flies at low altitudes, no more than 300 meters from the surface of the earth. Cumulus swarm This swarm appears in most hours of the day when the sun rises and its members accumulate on top of each other in the air in the form of tower-like groups, and often this type of flocks flies at high altitudes, up to a thousand meters above the surface of the earth, and the shape of the swarm differs in one flight for a type One locust, due to the influence of the air currents it encounters, may begin flight in a stratified manner and then change.
On the shape of the tower, especially if the air temperature rises from the first hours of the flight
The distribution of individuals inside the swarm differs from one place to another in it, as we find its edges consisting of unified individuals with consistent movement and position and their heads are all pointing forward. We find that the distribution in the middle of the swarm is random, and the randomness of this distribution - or spreading - increases the currents facing the swarm. pneumatic counter. The strange thing is that if the pioneers of the squadron from time to time felt that the rear of the squadron had moved away from its front and that the squadron was about to be torn apart and its parts dispersed, the front slowed down its movement. The locusts can catch up with him and join the swarm
Thus the swarm always maintains its orderly shape
And the locusts cannot move away from the mirage and break out of its general structure and framework, and if this happens, it hasten to re-enter the group. One of the best ways to disperse locust swarms so far is to use aircraft to counter the swarms, thus erecting tall barriers of toxin to combat the swarms that roost in open lands, especially in rough and inaccessible terrain. And spraying is done by planes from the air to the ground when the locusts are settled and perched on the ground, and the spraying is from the air to the air, and this is done in flying swarms on their way to stability
Thus, we see how these irrational locusts behave in an amazing way in gathering, directing, decisiveness, and traveling
And how it stirs panic in the hearts. Some may think that planes and pesticides can repel swarms of locusts, and some do not think about the amount of toxic insecticides used that spoil and poison vegetation and destroy and spoil life cycles, food chains and webs, leading to difficult environmental imbalances. to restore. Locust Nutritional value Locust is a species of insect from the family Acrididae and is also known as grasshopper. Locusts spread in huge numbers and can travel long distances
causing severe damage to crops.
However, in many African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries, locusts are considered a delicacy and are eaten in abundance. Locusts are an excellent source of protein and contain a variety of fatty acids and minerals. Although locusts are not considered palatable by most Americans, they are an important food source in many other countries.
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