A biologist at Penn State University, David Hughes, posted footage of locusts swarming over Kenya on Saturday.

Hughes is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) to research the growing locust plagues in Kenya — which the U.N.

Locust plagues, numbering in the billions of frenzied, flying grasshoppers, are essentially impossible to stop once they've grown wings and swarm over hundreds of square miles of land, "We’re not going to solve this problem as a human society anytime soon," Rick Overson, the research coordinator at Arizona State University's Global Locust Initiative, told Mashable in January.

The two videos below, posted by Hughes, show the current swarms in Kenya.

The current locust swarms aren't expected to die out anytime soon

map showing locust swarms and movements in Kenya

and locust researchers must dramatically improve predictions of where and when the swarms will form, so nations can quell the locust populations with chemical insecticides before they become untamable plagues