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These Swarming Locusts Are Grasshoppers Gone Wrong
Season 8
Episode 20
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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