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The locusts now transform into winged adults,
蝗蟲正在變態為有翅的成蟲，
and with conditions as good as this, they do so three times faster than normal.
由于生長環境良好，它們發育的速度達到平時的三倍。
Now they are at their most voracious...
現在到了食欲最旺盛的時候...
and with wings, they can take to the skies.
有了翅膀，它們就能飛行。
Once airborne, the locusts can travel over 60 miles a day in their search for new feeding grounds.
一旦上天，蝗蟲每天可以飛行九十六公里去尋找新的覓食區。
A super swarm of this scale may only appear once in a decade.
如此大規模的超級蝗群也許十年才出現一次。
This one extends over 200 square miles and contains several billion individuals.
這個蝗群遍布518平方公里，共有數十億只蝗蟲。
Between them, they will devour 40,000 tonnes of food in a day.
每天能吃掉四萬噸食物。
Nothing can strip a land of its vegetation with such speed and thoroughness as a plague of locusts.
蝗災吞噬植被的速度和徹底性沒有任何事物能與之比肩。
When the food eventually runs out, the whole army will die...
當食物消耗殆盡時，蝗蟲大軍就會滅亡...
but not before it's devastated the land.
但不等它們寂滅下來，世界早已一片狼藉。
