The locusts have swamped Astana, the Kazakh capital, making the roads slippery with their crushed bodies and invading houses and shops.
But she says she was aghast when friends laced a fake bug near the matzo standing in for the Biblical locusts.
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The animal motif in this scene echoes as spectator characters refer to the children as dogs and locusts throughout the novel.
The untended fields and the warm and dry summer have combined to provide a splendid breeding-ground for the swarms of locusts.
Don't worry, the frogs and locusts were filled with marshmallows.
But in the meantime, locusts or not, financial investors are likely to remain busy in Germany, and corporate managers will have to learn how to get along with them.
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This is probably because the children actually behave like dogs and locusts, which becomes the most adorable and most disturbing part of the novel.
If you were lucky, like we were, you also got: some quality family time, the Four Questions read to you in Yiddish and dark chocolate-covered frogs and locusts for dessert, representing two of the 10 plagues that befell Egypt.
As one could expect, the game will involve conflict between locusts and humans set to a lot of power chords.
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They--we-- alighted like locusts, parking on the grass and at the margins of the vine rows for the massive group tastings organized by the Union des Grands Crus.
At the beginning of each quarter I can remember the credit card kiosks overtaking campus like locusts.
On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping cursive.
Has this damaged the company, as German critics claim foreign locusts do?
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Evidently Chambers had turned on his computer one morning, clicked on his famous CEO dashboard--reported to be the best sales forecaster on the planet--and had spied a plague of locusts eating Cisco sales.
"I was just going through my daily email routine, reflecting on the fact that it feels like batting down a wall of locusts, " Bogost says.
Both floods, which encourage the growth of fungi, and droughts, which promote whiteflies, locusts and rodents, have an impact on agricultural production.
"I think night-flying moths and night-flying locusts could benefit from using a star compass similar to the one that the dung beetles are using, " she said.
In the hardest-hit areas, families are said to be surviving on locusts and grass.
It can be a crucial source of nutrition - some crickets and locusts that migrate in vast swarms rely on eating each other to survive the journey.
Yet as they grumble about being called locusts, traditional private-equity funds are quietly making similar accusations about the growing role being played in corporate Germany by hedge funds, such as Paulson.
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Seeing the writing on the wall, Mr Muntefering had tried to blame foreign private equity investors for Germany's economic ills, labelling them "locusts" who were asset stripping companies, sparking large job losses in the process.
The cyclone not only damaged crops but created "optimal conditions for one more generation of locusts to breed", it added.
As promising as the FDP's current rise is, by next year, supply siders and "locusts" may have a much harder time again in Germany.
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She said they came into her home "like a swarm of locusts" and moved valuables - including irreplaceable photo albums - out of reach of the floodwater.
The product also appears to be an effective pesticide against ants, fruit flies, weevils, locusts, and termites, and can also make wood more fire resistant, he added.
Fleas, locusts and frogs use their legs as springs to store energy and then fire them into the air.
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