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Keywords: contrasts in flight behavior demonstrated by meteorological evidence, heights of flights and vertical up-currents, weather systems in a trans-arabian movement of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria, evidence of down-wind displacement of locust swarms, implications, use of trajectories, convergence and rain, sequences of attacks by African armyworm Spodoptera exempta, concentration of airborne insects by convergent winds