From March to October 1915, swarms of locusts stripped areas in and around Palestine, Mount Lebanon and Syria of almost all vegetation. This infestation...

consuming most of the green vegetation wherever the swarm settles. Locusts have formed plagues since prehistory. The ancient Egyptians carved them on their...

other times, they may live unnoticed in small numbers. During plague years, desert locusts can cause widespread damage to crops, as they are highly mobile...

of the history of Ottoman Syria, taken as the parts of Ottoman Syria provinces under Ottoman rule. July 1516 – Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war...

canal in February 1915, and again the next summer. The canal was vital to the British war effort. In addition, the 1915 locust plague broke out in the...

Eternity News. 15 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021. "The Locust Plague of 1915 Photograph Album". Library of Congress. Archived from the original...

other Ottoman province. The blockade resulted in a grave food shortage with swarms of locust invading Lebanon. The result was famine, followed by plague, which...

Locust swarms have been recorded throughout history. Those which have their own Wikipedia articles are listed here, but there are many more notable ones...

crops from neighbouring Syria from entering Mount Lebanon, in response to the Allied blockade. Additionally, a swarm of locusts devoured the remaining...

1919) was a Romanian-born Ottoman agronomist, botanist, and political activist, who lived most of his life in Ottoman Syria. Aaronsohn was the discoverer...

Remembering the Great War in Syrian and Lebanon, everything including the plague. Al-Qattan, N. (2004). Safarbarlik: Ottoman Syria and the Great War. In T...

Matson Collection catalog description, Library of Congress. "The Locust Plague Of 1915 Photograph Album". Library of Congress. Archived from the original...

on Mount Lebanon, dense locust swarms appeared in the skies of the Levant during the beginning of April 1915, since the Ottoman Empire did not work to...

an attempt to stop traffic through the canal. March–October – The 1915 locust plague breaks out in the Eastern Mediterranean coastal region. 1916–1918...

(1912–1913), plagued the ailing empire's capital and resulted in the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état, which brought the regime of the Three Pashas. The Ottoman Empire...

British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He was killed during a mission for the organization while attempting to cross the Ottoman-British front...

could not be collected because of drought and locusts.: 315  In 1861, 1863, and 1886, there were locusts; in 1870 there was a drought due to lack of rain...

secede from the tottering Ottoman Empire. The massacres mainly took place in what is today southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria and northern Iraq. Assyrians...

could not be collected because of drought and locusts.: 315  In 1861, 1863, and 1886, there were locusts; in 1870 there was a drought due to lack of rain...

of this decrease, as some of these deaths could be explained by the locust plagues of 1866 and 1868, as well as by a rigorous winter in 1867–68, which...

of North Africa, p. 116. Ibn Khaldun viewed the Banu Hilal as destroying locust. Perkins, Tunisia: Crossroads of the Islamic and European Worlds (1986)...

Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the locust, which brings death unto cattle and plants. ... The sixteenth of the good...

the Syrian region of the Empire, including one which occurred in the 1860s which led to the massacre of thousands of Lebanese and Syrian by Ottoman Turks...

several protected and endangered plant and animal species like the Italian locust and the wood white butterfly. Almost half of the vast park's bird species...

Nathanael West (Ph.B. 1924) – author, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust Meg Wolitzer (A.B. 1981) – author, The Wife, The Interestings, The Position...