And there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth.
Revelation 9
Da New Sees World Report
via Daniyel
Rio Grande do Sol Brasil
July 12, 2020
From Feast to Famine: Beginning last year a series of powerful cyclones off the Indian Ocean that deluged the Southern Saudi Peninsula, as well as East Africa, and copious monsoons flooding the Indian Subcontinent as well as South Central Asia enabled countless billions of Schistocerea Gregaria a.k.a. Desert Locust eggs to hatch at a rate now over 8000% larger than any year in the past quarter century. These gregarious creatures with a voracious appetite for farmland vegetation, capable of flying as much as 150 Km (90+miles) per day are devastating crops being grown for human consumption, which is only compounding the coming global food crisis already described by David Beasley Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme as placing the lives of over 250 million people in peril due to malnutrition deaths for the remainder of 2020 caused primarily to global Covid 19 economic shutdowns...before taking into account the famines resulting from this years Locust swarms now affecting 4 Continents.
Plagues of locusts have a unique way of capturing the attention of people who have previously made a connection between times of great famine, and the return of Messiah Yahushua (Jesus of Nazareth) to establish the Kingdom of Heaven:
8All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24: 3-8
There can be a lot of confusion about what exactly a locust is. To the average eye, it's easy to mix up the critters with cicadas and crickets. The simple answer, though, explains Rick Overson of Arizona State University's Global Locust Initiative, is that locusts are a very special kind of grasshopper.
As Overson explains, there are hundreds of species of grasshoppers, "but only a small handful of those are what we consider locusts."
That raises a question: What makes a locust a locust? According to Overson, it comes down to a superpower possessed by locusts that enables them to go through a remarkable switch in development.
Most of the time, locusts exist in their "grasshopper phase" — they lead solitary lives, they're green and pretty unremarkable.
"Nobody really notices them," Overson says.
The timing of this varies, and the shifts are pretty irregular, but for years, locusts can live like this – alone, biding their time.
But when environmental conditions are right — usually when there's a lot of rainfall and moisture — something dramatic happens: "They increase in numbers, and as they do so, they sense one another around them," says Overson.
This is what biologists call the "gregarious phase" of the locust.
The creatures undergo a remarkable transformation. "They change their physiology. Their brain changes, their coloration changes, their body size changes," Overson says. "Instead of repelling one another, they become attracted to one another — and if those conditions persist in the environment, they start to march together in coordinated formations across the landscape, which is what we're seeing in eastern Africa."
The ability to change dramatically like this in response to environmental conditions is called phenotypic plasticity. Many species, such as some types of coral, exhibit it. Though scientists can't be certain why locusts developed the trait over time, many believe it's because they typically live in temperamental and harsh environments.
"Locusts tend to live in areas where resources that they need are very unpredictable," Overson explains. The Horn of Africa, for instance, is known for being arid, going for years without heavy rain until slammed suddenly by powerful downfalls. "The strongest hypothesis is that these crazy, unpredictable dynamics select evolutionarily for this ability to go through these dramatic changes, to respond when you can capitalize on a rare opportunity and also have capacity to migrate."
When locusts swarm like this, they ravage agriculture, devouring practically anything in sight.
What is the best solution for limiting the crop & environmental damages caused during plagues of Locusts?
Being able to fly as much as 100 miles a day by their very nature Locust are migratory insects that place a huge burden on the logistics of effectively and economically spraying pesticides to reduce the size of locust swarms. Scientists are also concerned that current solutions, such as spraying huge amounts of pesticides from planes, drones, and helicopters, are largely ineffective, and can be harmful to human health as well as biodiversity by harming other creatures that aren't causing any harm to the environment.
Currently Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay are now also combating locust swarms.
There's a risk the plague of insects could soon spread to other countries in South America.
Meanwhile in the United States farmers and ranchers in 9 Western States including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming are now combating mid size locust swarms known as ¨Mormon Crickets¨ with funding from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, with concerns that they may spread into other states including the agricultural regions of California.
With global food supply chain problems due not only due to Covid 19 economic and agriculture shutdowns yet also to vastly reduced harvests in recent years due to excessive droughts, and severe flooding across nearly the entire continental United States. A season of severe locust swarms in the U.S. could well be the Perfect Storm that leads to the Days of Hunger and Chaos in the good old U.S.A.
Locust Plagues are a very effective way long used by Yahweh to get the attention of Egyptian Pharaohs as well as ordinary people to choose wisely, and to repent of their sins and evil ways: Yahweh has every living creature at his command, and when he pleases he can humble and mortify a proud and rebellious people by the weakest and most contemptable of insects.
Yet what is the best way to deal with a locust swarm of Biblical Proportions? Quite simple Grasshopper, just get a large new to catch them, then eat them since they have already eaten most of the crops that you have planted.
3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
According to Moshe Basson, a chef and founder and owner of the Eucalyptus restaurant in Jerusalem, Israel, the insects can be added to boiling broth or a tasty soup made of water in which bones, meat, or vegetables have been simmered.
“Drop the locusts into a boiling broth, clean them off, and roll in a mixture of flour, coriander seeds, garlic and chilli powder. Then deep-fry them,” he told the BBC during an interview on eating locusts after a 2013 locust invasion in Israel.
Here is the recipe for Moshe Basson’s Crisp Grasshoppers (Use around 25 locusts)
1. Prepare around 2 litres of vegetable stock with a little tumeric added to it.
2. Place the locusts in the boiling stock. Cook for about 3 minutes.
3. Drain the locusts and let them cool a bit.
4. Twist off their heads, and this will ensure that you pull out their black, threadlike entrails.
5. Remove the wings and small legs from the cooked insects.
6. Make a seasoned flour using 4 tablespoons, 3/4 teaspoon salt, a little pepper and chilli powder, a shake of ground coriander, and dried garlic pellets. A typical, simple seasoned flour can be made with simple ingredients like salt, pepper and flour.
7. Roll the precooked locusts in a beaten egg, before rolling them in the seasoned flour. Shake the excess flour off.
8. Fry in olive oil for 1 1/2-2 minutes, till it turns a golden brown.
9. Serve with lemon tahini sauce.
2. Place the locusts in the boiling stock. Cook for about 3 minutes.
3. Drain the locusts and let them cool a bit.
4. Twist off their heads, and this will ensure that you pull out their black, threadlike entrails.
5. Remove the wings and small legs from the cooked insects.
6. Make a seasoned flour using 4 tablespoons, 3/4 teaspoon salt, a little pepper and chilli powder, a shake of ground coriander, and dried garlic pellets. A typical, simple seasoned flour can be made with simple ingredients like salt, pepper and flour.
7. Roll the precooked locusts in a beaten egg, before rolling them in the seasoned flour. Shake the excess flour off.
8. Fry in olive oil for 1 1/2-2 minutes, till it turns a golden brown.
9. Serve with lemon tahini sauce.
10. Enjoy this delightful delicacy!!!
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