Drivers on a highway in the Western Sahara desert were ambushed by an unexpected obstacle: a large swarm of locusts that had invaded the road.
The captured video shows cars passing through the locusts, which appear to be thousands of them jumping onto passing cars and sometimes even obstructing the view.
According to various media outlets, officials in Lanzarote and Tenerife are stressing that the insects do not yet pose a direct threat to the public, although they acknowledge the potential for serious agricultural damage.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has issued several critical updates in early 2026 regarding the desert locust “outbreak.”
According to the FAO, just one square kilometer of a desert locust swarm “can contain up to 80 million adults, with the capacity to consume the same amount of food in one day as 35,000 people.”
This can also lead to economic impacts and environmental damage. /Telegraph/