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This answers the title question but the most interesting part about the article is the fascinating way in which the locust’s behavior is triggered by crowding.

This answers the title question but the most interesting part about the article is the fascinating way in which the locust’s behavior is triggered by crowding. An amazing biological adaption. It’s well-worth reading the whole thing.

knollimar 5mo ago
It was until the animated insects. I threw my phone
- AndrewKemendo 5mo ago
  This was exactly my response
- FarmerPotato 5mo ago
  Gotta give credit, the gimmick is not superfluous. I don’t enjoy horror movies. But the locust was a horror!
- explosion-s 5mo ago
  Sorry guys haha!! I intended the insects to come without prompting only on scroll pause but for debug purposes of the article I had set them to once every 15ish seconds[0]. I thought it was really great and love it personally as it really gets the AAA factor in, though I should probably respect use-reduced-motion lol [0]: https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/locusts/blob/main/src/components/LocustsSwarm.vue https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/locusts/blob/main/src/c...
  - srean 5mo ago
    Loved them. Wish they were more realistically animated :)
  - x______________ 4mo ago
    There's something about those animated hoppers that fills me with nostalgia about the early web. Maybe prompt the user if they like bugs and then add the auto-hop (and more) bugs to those who say yes?!
    - x______________ 4mo ago
      Random yet on topic, I found[0] the tiniest hopper I've ever seen today hitching a ride on my hoodie! [0]https://i.ibb.co/Y4nwnpgP/Screenshot-20260601-165536-Gallery.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Y4nwnpgP/Screenshot-20260601-165536-Gallery...
- lenkite 5mo ago
  Jesus, that was a shocker for sure. I slapped my screen in reflex.
brikym 5mo ago
I couldn't help but think office politics is a bit like that. Over populate a company or starve employees of opportunities and thy will be less helpful to each other and more focused on self-promotion politics.
- awesome_dude 5mo ago
  It's this that always makes me laugh - right wing people demanding people act like teams, and work for the common good...
  - HappMacDonald 5mo ago
    Well, prisoner's dilemma defectors demanding that everyone else cooperate, obviously.
  - hactually 5mo ago
    right wing?
    - awesome_dude 5mo ago
      Absolutely - Right Wing core theorem is that people work as individuals - competition brings out the best, only the fittest/fastest/strongest will survive.
- explosion-s 5mo ago
  I know right! It was a super interesting rabbit hole of mine while writing this to discover how boids simulations work, I'm personally very interested in whatever the mathematics of simple rules giving rise to complex and chaotic systems is. It'd be very interesting to do an article about the population dynamics and such of locusts (esp tying into general math). I love what a gnash equilibrium (I think) it is of their behavior - and really funny, the constant march of canibalism haha

knollimar 5mo ago

It was until the animated insects. I threw my phone

AndrewKemendo 5mo ago
This was exactly my response
FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Gotta give credit, the gimmick is not superfluous. I don’t enjoy horror movies. But the locust was a horror!
explosion-s 5mo ago
Sorry guys haha!! I intended the insects to come without prompting only on scroll pause but for debug purposes of the article I had set them to once every 15ish seconds[0]. I thought it was really great and love it personally as it really gets the AAA factor in, though I should probably respect use-reduced-motion lol [0]: https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/locusts/blob/main/src/components/LocustsSwarm.vue https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/locusts/blob/main/src/c...
- srean 5mo ago
  Loved them. Wish they were more realistically animated :)
- x______________ 4mo ago
  There's something about those animated hoppers that fills me with nostalgia about the early web. Maybe prompt the user if they like bugs and then add the auto-hop (and more) bugs to those who say yes?!
  - x______________ 4mo ago
    Random yet on topic, I found[0] the tiniest hopper I've ever seen today hitching a ride on my hoodie! [0]https://i.ibb.co/Y4nwnpgP/Screenshot-20260601-165536-Gallery.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Y4nwnpgP/Screenshot-20260601-165536-Gallery...
lenkite 5mo ago
Jesus, that was a shocker for sure. I slapped my screen in reflex.

brikym 5mo ago

I couldn't help but think office politics is a bit like that. Over populate a company or starve employees of opportunities and thy will be less helpful to each other and more focused on self-promotion politics.

awesome_dude 5mo ago
It's this that always makes me laugh - right wing people demanding people act like teams, and work for the common good...
- HappMacDonald 5mo ago
  Well, prisoner's dilemma defectors demanding that everyone else cooperate, obviously.
- hactually 5mo ago
  right wing?
  - awesome_dude 5mo ago
    Absolutely - Right Wing core theorem is that people work as individuals - competition brings out the best, only the fittest/fastest/strongest will survive.
explosion-s 5mo ago
I know right! It was a super interesting rabbit hole of mine while writing this to discover how boids simulations work, I'm personally very interested in whatever the mathematics of simple rules giving rise to complex and chaotic systems is. It'd be very interesting to do an article about the population dynamics and such of locusts (esp tying into general math). I love what a gnash equilibrium (I think) it is of their behavior - and really funny, the constant march of canibalism haha