Footage shows thousands of locusts latching on crops destroying harvests in India while the country is battling floods.

In the video, the swarm of pest are ravaging what was left of a plantation in the eastern Bihar state on July 14.

Neeraj Singh said that the locusts have been jumping from plantation to plantation and eating all their plants.

He said: "We are having enough of natural calamities like flood, and now we have to face these locusts."

Desert locust swarms live and breed in dry, barren lands, making the country a perfect spot as it has wide desert regions.

These crop-devouring insects travel in groups although they are not considered dangerous when in isolation.

Nonseasonal rainfall such as the cyclone Amphan had caused the large-scale breeding of the locusts.

The country, and other countries beside its borders like Pakistan, have faced what is believed to be the worst locust plague they had in 30 years.