By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR<\/p>\n
Published: 16:26 BST, 5 August 2026 | Updated: 17:10 BST, 5 August 2026<\/p>\n
Millions of locusts have descended on southern Russia, swallowing roads, darkening the skies and tearing through valuable farmland.<\/p>\n
The enormous, fast-moving swarm has engulfed the Kizlyar district in the Republic of Dagestan, where the insects have dramatically reduced visibility and created dangerous conditions for motorists.<\/p>\n
Footage from the region shows locusts filling the air and surrounding vehicles as drivers attempt to navigate through the biblical invasion.<\/p>\n
Stunned visitors watched as the insects flooded the skies,\u00a0with some comparing the eerie transformation to the ten plagues God inflicted on the Egyptians in the biblical narrative of Exodus.<\/p>\n
\u2018Looks like one of the 10 plagues,\u2019 one X user wrote.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s all gone Biblical, maaannn…\u2019 another declared, while one person simply warned: \u2018Biblical.\u2019<\/p>\n
Another invoked Moses\u2019 warning to the Egyptian pharaoh before the plagues descended, writing: \u2018Let my people go.\u2019<\/p>\n
The ravenous insects are also sweeping across agricultural land, threatening crops as authorities race to contain the escalating emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Footage from the region shows locusts filling the air and surrounding vehicles as drivers attempt to navigate through the biblical invasion<\/p>\n
The Bible recounts that God sent ten plagues upon Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to free the Israelites from slavery.<\/p>\n
The first plague turned the Nile to blood, killing fish and poisoning the water, said to have occurred when Moses struck the Nile with his staff.<\/p>\n
Following the first plague, Egypt was struck by swarms of frogs, lice or gnats, and flies, along with deadly livestock disease and painful boils.<\/p>\n
A severe hailstorm, locust swarms, three days of thick darkness, and finally the death of every firstborn son forced Pharaoh to release the Israelites.<\/p>\n