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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has issued several critical updates in early 2026 regarding the desert locust \u201coutbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
This can also lead to economic impacts and environmental damage. \/Telegraph\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers on a highway in the Western Sahara desert were ambushed by an unexpected obstacle: a large swarm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[168331,111,139,69,124422,147,406],"class_list":["post-308478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-locust","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sahara-desert","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}