Swarms of Locusts Tormenting Middle East, Madagascar

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Wunderground.com - 3/28/13, Sean Breslin

A swarm of locusts fly over the Negev desert near the Egyptian-Israeli border on March 12, 2013 at the Beduin village of Bir Hadage, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

A modern-day plague of locusts have been swarming the Middle East in March, and now, they're even turning up elsewhere.

Millions of the crop-destroying insects were first reported in Egypt, but quickly crossed over into neighboring Israel, where images of the biblical plagues resurfaced. They showed up by the millions, just before Passover, forcing a rapid response to exterminate the critters that are notorious for reproducing and growing their swarms at an alarming pace.

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