Swarms of Locusts Tormenting Middle East, Madagascar [1]
Wunderground.com - 3/28/13, Sean Breslin
A swarm of locusts fly over the Negev desert near the Egyptian-Israeli border on March 12, 2013 at the Beduin village of Bir Hadage, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
A modern-day plague of locusts have been swarming the Middle East in March, and now, they're even turning up elsewhere.
Millions of the crop-destroying insects were first reported in Egypt, but quickly crossed over into neighboring Israel, where images of the biblical plagues resurfaced. They showed up by the millions, just before Passover [2], forcing a rapid response to exterminate the critters that are notorious for reproducing and growing their swarms at an alarming pace.
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