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  • 12
    Mar
    2013
    10:00pm, EDT

    Swarming locusts descend on Israel

    Uriel Sinai / Getty Images

    Bedouin children play as a swarm of locusts arrive over their vilage in the Negev desert near the Egyptian-Israeli border on March 12, 2013 at the Bedouin village of Bir Hadage, Israel. Egypt and Israel have been swarmed with millions of locusts over the past few days, causing widespread disturbance.

    Uriel Sinai / Getty Images

    A Bedouin boy collects locusts as a swarm arrives over his vilage in the Negev desert near the Egyptian-Israeli border on March 12, 2013.

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    Israeli agricultural officials are continuing efforts to stave off swarms of locusts two weeks ahead of the Passover holiday. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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    Is it a sign of things to come - another exile? Slaughtering of 1,400 helpless Palestinian men, women and children - and starving the rest - must have provoked the God of mercy.

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  • 4
    Aug
    2012
    1:06pm, EDT

    Swarm of thousands of bees delays Pittsburgh flight

    Stephen Repasky / AP

    Thousands of bees swarm on the wing of a Delta Air Lines flight at Pittsburgh International Airport in Pittsburgh. The flight from Pittsburgh to New York was delayed until Repasky, a beekeeper, was called in to remove them.

    Justin Merriman / AP

    A beekeeper, gathers up bees that swarmed on the wing of a Delta Air Lines flight.

    Master beekeeper Stephen Repasky tells KDKA-TV he was called out on Wednesday when the bees gathered on the wing of the plane as crews were getting ready to fuel the plane.

    Repasky says such swarms form when colonies become too large and the queen leaves half of her bees behind to find a new home. Some swarms can contain 25,000 to 30,000 bees.

    -- Reported by the Associated Press

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    Interesting. I saw the very same thing several weeks ago on a smaller scale. As an aircraft mechanic I was contacted to investigate a swarm of bees in a Piper Cheyenne (small turboprop) . Ultimately a bee removal expert removed about 3000 bees from around an air inlet duct on the plane, but even 24 …

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