Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, if they pray for me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
Grasshoppers, cicadas, locusts, all pretty much the same thing.
I was skeptical of what he said about every 17 years and then realized that the last devastating swarm was 33 years ago. Pretty damn close to two cycles of 17 years. Can't confirm if there was a swarm in '04 or '05 yet though.
The difference between cicadas and locusts is that cicadas do not damage crops, or much of anything, for that matter. They come out of the ground to mate after an extensive period of time underground. The females lay their eggs under tree bark and the larva eventually drop to the ground where they burrow and await the time when it's their turn to come out of the ground to mate. They are noisy, big and rather ugly, and they fly all over the place -- basically they're annoying, but harmless.
Locusts, however, will do extensive crop damage by eating everything in sight.
As adults they feed on plant fluids from the young twigs of trees and woody shrubs.
Contrary to popular opinion, adult cicadas do not cause serious plant damage from their feeding activities, but do damage plants as the result of their behavior of cutting small slits in the plant they use for places to deposit their eggs.
It’s devastating my families crops, they eat everything. It looks like it’s been harvested already. They are half joking about them starting to eat the fence posts.
Well, I'm not John the Baptizer but seriously, isn't it possible to gather up a BUNCH of these and maybe cook 'em and feed the chickens or the fish or the hogs? We don't often think of sucking them up in a big vacuum but... why not?
This is an old article but... worth considering...
So, the MSM goes absolutely batshit crazy over "murder hornets" and Gen 17 cicadas, but is eerily silent on a plague of locusts? Yeah...that sounds about right.
I don't think this is a biblical swarm, though. In Exodus, it clearly states that God sent the locusts to eat every plant in their paths. I know locusts do that, but it says this completely destroyed, and laid baren, Egypt's farms and grain production. No crop was spared. The people starved. It triggered a famine.
This article doesn't paint that picture. There's still farms that are unaffected. That could change, yes, but what about all the other grain producing States in the mid-West?
Article? What are you on about? I posted a photo, mate. The swarm always begins somewhere. Every plant is being eaten in their paths, there is none left to harvest. Are you aware of what a grain field should look like at this time of year? The photos my family shares with me looks like post-harvest.
Everyday I like to look outside to see what chapter of Revelations we are on.
2 Chronicles 7 13-14:
Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, if they pray for me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
https://imgur.com/a/aW0k0PZ
good thing He gave us a solution, since they come every 17 years.
I believe you're thinking of cicadas, fren. They're not the same thing as locusts.
Grasshoppers, cicadas, locusts, all pretty much the same thing.
I was skeptical of what he said about every 17 years and then realized that the last devastating swarm was 33 years ago. Pretty damn close to two cycles of 17 years. Can't confirm if there was a swarm in '04 or '05 yet though.
The difference between cicadas and locusts is that cicadas do not damage crops, or much of anything, for that matter. They come out of the ground to mate after an extensive period of time underground. The females lay their eggs under tree bark and the larva eventually drop to the ground where they burrow and await the time when it's their turn to come out of the ground to mate. They are noisy, big and rather ugly, and they fly all over the place -- basically they're annoying, but harmless.
Locusts, however, will do extensive crop damage by eating everything in sight.
What are cicadas feeding off of to support swarms then?
As adults they feed on plant fluids from the young twigs of trees and woody shrubs.
Contrary to popular opinion, adult cicadas do not cause serious plant damage from their feeding activities, but do damage plants as the result of their behavior of cutting small slits in the plant they use for places to deposit their eggs.
https://www.orkin.com/other/cicadas/diet
https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/what-do-cicadas-eat/
Interesting, thanks. They do seem to be quite a bit different than locusts after all.
I just did A DDG search for "locust swarm United States" and looked for results with the last week.... Only articles about Africa come up.
Agree, this is a spam post. Can't find anything about locusts either.
I'm in the upper midwest and haven't heard of or seen any locust swarms
Spam post? Can you clarify?
I can't find anything reporting about the locusts. I'm worried about food supplies into the fall/winter and this would obviously have a major impact.
I don't understand, you can't find anything reporting it, therefore you conclude this is a spam post?
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmarni.gaskill%2Fposts%2F10158419919043041
It’s devastating my families crops, they eat everything. It looks like it’s been harvested already. They are half joking about them starting to eat the fence posts.
I have a friend on the Colorado Front Range sending me pictures. They are huge!
Eat them with wild honey.
Well, I'm not John the Baptizer but seriously, isn't it possible to gather up a BUNCH of these and maybe cook 'em and feed the chickens or the fish or the hogs? We don't often think of sucking them up in a big vacuum but... why not?
This is an old article but... worth considering...
Eating Locusts
Great. Bill Gates wants us to eat grasshoppers now? Eww.
So, the MSM goes absolutely batshit crazy over "murder hornets" and Gen 17 cicadas, but is eerily silent on a plague of locusts? Yeah...that sounds about right.
I don't think this is a biblical swarm, though. In Exodus, it clearly states that God sent the locusts to eat every plant in their paths. I know locusts do that, but it says this completely destroyed, and laid baren, Egypt's farms and grain production. No crop was spared. The people starved. It triggered a famine.
This article doesn't paint that picture. There's still farms that are unaffected. That could change, yes, but what about all the other grain producing States in the mid-West?
Article? What are you on about? I posted a photo, mate. The swarm always begins somewhere. Every plant is being eaten in their paths, there is none left to harvest. Are you aware of what a grain field should look like at this time of year? The photos my family shares with me looks like post-harvest.
https://imgur.com/a/aW0k0PZ