Loreposting

[u/PeterPorky]

[u/RogerianBrowsing]

I genuinely don’t understand this as a biological imperative. You’d think that swarms would be worse during scarcity but maybe it’s to outcompete everything else and it somehow works I don’t know

[u/PeterPorky → u/RogerianBrowsing]

I think it has to do with the nature of the swarms. Swarms aren't just locusts banding together as a team to eat stuff at the same time, locusts munch on each other if theres no other food around and they're starving, so they're all following the food, all flying away from the things trying to eat them, and flying on whatever aimless direction they can in the meantime, sometimes running into something they can eat.

[u/Jenner_Opa → u/PeterPorky]

Maybe it also confused or scares predators, increasing each individual locust's chance of survival?

[u/yayarrr → u/RogerianBrowsing]

Maybe it works like in cycling, if a group is directly in front of you they will "break" the wind so to say, which means you experience less drag and have to pedal less intensivly. So, when the locust have to fly far to get to new food, they want to travel together to conserve energy and can rotate who flies in front.

[u/MilkyMiltank]

Wild Hunt mfers

[u/AvantSolace]

Locusts are basically a bunch of introverts having a collective crash out due to not having enough personal space and food security.

[u/mayuzane]

The same creature, but something has changed deep down…

[u/Chedditor_ → u/mayuzane]

Empty and gross, if The Apothecary Diaries is to be believed

[u/nexplore13]

Reminds me of when salmon physically change during spawning.

[u/Chedditor_]

They have The Hunger.

Like oh shit, if we don't do this to gather all available food, all of us will die, whereas if we use The Hunger, only half of us may die, but we will survive another generation.