Swarming Locusts |
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"And I will restore unto you the years that the locust hath eaten" Joel 2v25 |  |
Read about John the Baptist eating locusts (Matthew chapter 3) |
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| We locusts are not too big. But we can swarm together to do a lot of damage. We're swarming now for your full attention! | ||
| We locusts are insects. So our bodies are divided into 3 parts - head, thorax, and abdomen. We have 2 antennae on our heads. We have 4 wings and 6 legs. | ||
| God gave us mouths that can bite and chew plants. Each of us locusts can eat its own body weight in food every day. | ||
| Did you know that we locusts have compound eyes? This means we have hundreds of tiny lens in our eyes. So we can see much better than you humans! | ||
| We locusts have no lungs. We breathe through tiny holes called spiracles. They're on the sides of our bodies. | ||
| We locusts are only 1.5 - 7.5 cm long. And we only weigh about 2g. So we don't have a lot of weight to throw around! | ||
| Our young ones are called hoppers. They hatch from little eggs. They hop over the ground and eat plants. At first they have no wings. They shed their skins 5 times as they grow up. And their wings appear on their backs. | ||
| From time to time we locusts band together and grow bigger and stronger wings than usual. Then we move in great swarms. | ||
| Some of us are desert locusts from Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia. We're famous for swarming in vast numbers. There could be a billion of us in a swarm. And we can completely blacken the sky! | ||
| When we're moving in vast swarms you humans had better beware! We can travel thousands of kilometres. We devour every plant before us. And we love your precious crops. | ||
| The food eaten in one day by such a large swarm of us locusts would feed a city the size of Edinburgh in Scotland for a whole year! | ||
| We know that you humans don't like big swarms of us. But when we move like a mighty army from one area to another, we are hungry. We just have to eat your crops or we will die. | ||
| Remember when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. and Pharaoh would not let them go. God sent a swarm of us locusts to eat up all the Egyptians' crops. | ||
| We locusts don't have a long life. We only live a few months. So please don't be too hard on us! | ||
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