here comes that plague of locusts!

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=259329

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

this is in senegal:

http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2004/nov/locusts/gallery2.jpg

more here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4168375

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.npr.org/news/images/2004/aug/13/corbis/locusts140.jpg

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

jon williams to thread to post noise dudes in bug costumes

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the ABC one is the most religiouse piece of reporting i have ever read.

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no shit

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the 10 plagues (aka "why we spill drops of perfectly good wine at passover"):

Blood
Frogs
Vermin
Beasts
Cattle Disease
Boils
Hail
Locusts
Darkness
Slaying of First Born

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

[insert justin hawkins picture here]

but we've already had the plague of Darkness!!!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"pink locusts" sounds so fun and festive.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i think a plague of frogs would be pretty cool!

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not, they get all squooshed on the street. :(

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

pink frogs!!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.daisa.co.jp/russ/furo-bard/pink-frog/0306pinkkero.jpg

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

IT LIVES

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/041117/041117_locust_hmed_6a.hmedium.jpg

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought these were cool stories about North America's now extinct Rocky Mountain Locust:

http://www.denver-rmn.com/millennium/0622mile.shtml
http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/Lockwood.html

I also think the idea of a species that changes it's physical capabilities, form, and behavioral traits as the result of environmental cues is pretty cool:

"A locust is a special kind of grasshopper, not a particular taxonomic group, having a unique life history strategy that involves the capacity to change its physiology, behavior, and morphology in response to environmental cues, especially crowding. The so-called gregarious phase is darker in color, has longer wings, and exhibits a propensity for aggregation, compared to the solitary phase. In the solitary phase, the locust is indistinguishable from a grasshopper, but in the gregarious phase it forms into dense bands of nymphs that develop into vast swarms of adults."

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

dense bands of nymphs

http://www.hipmagazine.com/album.gif

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Great band, saw 'em three times.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.mho.net/dougc/zor2.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Great band, saw 'em three times.

if i were a tawdry l.a. metal stripper chick i'd totally do my act to "sad and damned."

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

She was totally friendly when I talked to her after the show they did on the UCLA campus as a nooner, Inger was. Even agreed to do a promo for KLA! Falling James and Donnette Thayer were there and joined in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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