#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
Gesehen bei @christophs (Diaspora) und wegen der fehlenden Bildbeschreibung hier noch einmal manuell neu eingestellt.
#Trump #USA #Meme #Locusts # Heuschrecken #just4fun #2025-02-11
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."
#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
#FilmMastodon 
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.
#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/
During my walk in the woods I saw this Bush cricket, or katydid. I sat on an old tree trunk pushing it’s tail in a hole in the dead wood to lay eggs.
https://vroegevogels.bnnvara.nl/community/fotos/geleedpotigen/grote-groene-sabelsprinkhaan/437599
#TropicalStorm plus #Earthquake, if I get #Locusts I get #bingo
@nev
Wow what a scene. Moulting renders insects vulnerable. A while back I witnessed how a hornet Vespula germanica chewed on the soft wings of a moulting Egyptian bird grasshoper, Anacridium aegyptium http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91574142
I too wonder why insects have such a weak point. Only social insects, who protect each other, are spared. Others have to dig themselves into crevices, like solitary bees, yet are still subject to predation.
@nev
Wow what a scene. Moulting renders insects vulnerable. A while back I witnessed how a hornet Vespula germanica chewed on the soft wings of a moulting Egyptian bird grasshoper, Anacridium aegyptium http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91574142
I too wonder why insects have such a weak point. Only social insects, who protect each other, are spared. Others have to dig themselves into crevices, like solitary bees, yet are still subject to predation.
We aspired to art,
as we stripped Earth of beauty.
Locusts aren't artists.
Earth To Be Hit by 'Widespread Pest Outbreaks'—And It's Our Fault
by Jess Thomson, June 20, 2023
"Insects around the world are expected to be thrown into chaos by the effects of man-made #ClimateChange. Changes in temperatures may throw off their delicate interactions with plants and other insect species, possibly causing widespread pest outbreaks.
"According to a paper published in the journal Ecology Letters on June 20, increased temperatures from climate change are predicted to impact insect communities and their interactions with the lifecycles of the plants they rely on, possibly leading to the loss of important species in the future.
"'Climate change is going to have multifaceted effects on insect communities and whole ecosystems,' Thomas H.Q. Powell told Newsweek. Powell is a co-author of the paper and an assistant professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
"The authors found that the balance between insect species and their predatory #wasps may be thrown off-kilter by climate change, with different species declining or succeeding based on how resilient they are to change. Unfortunately for us, those most resilient are often pest species like #locusts or ips beetles, and the species that control them tend to be less robust."
Is there an ETA for #locusts?
What else are we missing?
@breadandcircuses it's called #WordEconomicForum, not #WorldClimateForum or #WorldSustainabilityForum.
Thus they'll act like #locusts and suck the earth dry, planning to flee to Mars once people will unsarcastially want to #EatTheRich out of literal #hunger...
⁂ (Fediverse) 
