Swarms of Locusts Darken Skies, Prompt State of Emergency in Southern Russia

Abcnews.go.com reports:

Plagues of locusts are swarming large areas of southern Russia, threatening thousands of acres of crops and in some places darkening the skies. A video shot by a local man in Achikulak, a village in the Stavropol region, shows thousands of the bugs swarming towards a church. Other videos, screened by local TV channels, showed clouds of locusts flying overhead. “It was very frightening,” Lubov Timus, a local woman who lives in Achikulak, told ABC News. “Some were as big as your finger! They came like a clouds.” The waves of locusts began around July 20, according to Stavropol’s regional agricultural ministry... -- A state of emergency has also been declared in the area.