NOVA Season 9 Episode 5 Synopsis

Called the "teeth of the wind" by those who have battled them for centuries, locusts continue to plague hundreds of millions of people. Rare desert rains transforms locusts from harmless grasshoppers to voracious swarms capable of destroying all vegetation in their path. NOVA reveals some of man's latest attempts to rid himself of his age-old enemy, the locust.

NOVA Season 9 Episodes...

• s09e01 - Computers, Spies and Private Lives
• s09e02 - Why America Burns
• s09e03 - The Great Violin Mystery
• s09e04 - Cosmic Fire
• s09e05 - Locusts: War Without End
• s09e06 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
• s09e07 - Artists in the Lab
• s09e08 - Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas
• s09e09 - City Spaces, Human Places
• s09e10 - Twins
• s09e11 - Salmon on the Run
• s09e12 - Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
• s09e13 - A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
• s09e14 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
• s09e15 - Finding a Voice
• s09e16 - The Television Explosion
• s09e17 - Life: Patent Pending
• s09e18 - Palace of Delights
• s09e19 - Animal Impostors
• s09e20 - Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.