{"id":85202,"date":"2026-08-06T07:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85202"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:53:55","slug":"biblical-swarm-of-locusts-sparks-horror-as-they-flood-skies-over-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/biblical-swarm-of-locusts-sparks-horror-as-they-flood-skies-over-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Biblical&#8217; Swarm Of Locusts Sparks Horror As They Flood Skies Over Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily\u00a0 Mail (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/article-16031159\/locusts-swarm-russia-dagestan-crops.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/08\/05\/17\/110456391-16031159-Footage_from_the_region_shows_locusts_filling_the_air_and_surrou-a-2_1785946179500.jpg\" alt=\"Footage from the region shows locusts filling the air and surrounding vehicles as drivers attempt to navigate through the biblical invasion\" width=\"330\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Looks like one of the 10 plagues,\u2019 one X user wrote. \u2018It\u2019s all gone Biblical, maaannn&#8230;\u2019 another declared, while one person simply warned: \u2018Biblical.\u2019 The ravenous insects are also sweeping across agricultural land, threatening crops as authorities race to contain the escalating emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily\u00a0 Mail (tabloid): Stunned visitors watched as the insects flooded the skies,\u00a0with some comparing the eerie transformation to the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85203,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85202\/revisions\/85203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}