The beetles swarm up trees in large numbers, killing them by boring through the bark, sapping their nutrients and emitting a damaging blue fungus.

ECONOMIST: Pining for a cold winter

Francis tells us to tuck our socks over our jeans (lest driver ants swarm up our legs) and to avoid touching the stinging nettles that are everywhere.

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"Currently, about half the country is infested by hoppers and flying swarms - each swarm made up of billions of plant-devouring insects, " the FAO said in a statement.

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The High-Powered Microwave, as it is called, is reported by Aviation Week to be powerful enough to disable all of the motors in a swarm of up to 30 speedboats.

ECONOMIST: Electromagnetic weapons

The game revolves around Kerrigan attempting to exact revenge on Arcturus Mengsk for his many sins, and that involves reassembling her old swarm, in addition to picking up new allies along the way.

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When dawn approaches, the cats finish their work, close up the shops, and swarm back across the bridge.

NEWYORKER: Town of Cats

With minimal narration and swift explanatory titles, the director sweeps viewers up in the surging movements of huge flocks that swarm from north to south every fall and back again in spring.

NEWYORKER: Winged Migration

As enemies swarm from all sides, you'll find yourself pitching up and down, even turning 180 degrees from the TV, borrowing a trick from the 3DS and using the GamePad like an all-angles window into another dimension a totable version of the parallel universe viewscreen in Fringe.

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After twenty minutes, Benny Avni suddenly got up, went down to the basement, and turned on the light, igniting a whole swarm of insects.

NEWYORKER: Waiting