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These Swarming Locusts Are Grasshoppers Gone Wrong

See the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Get a new perspective on our place in the universe and meet extraordinary new friends. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small.

These Swarming Locusts Are Grasshoppers Gone Wrong

Season 8 Episode 20 | 4m 46s | CC

They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction. When the conditions are right, they transform from mild-mannered loners into gregarious partiers. They swarm, causing chaos and suffering at the level of a biblical plague. So what sets them off?

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