Large numbers of flying ants have been invading parts of the British Isles due to the warmer weather.
Footage has emerged showing a number of strange white objects moving over the port city of Osaka.
Gao Bingguo set a new world record by engulfing his body in a swarm of bees weighing more than 109kg.
Local residents have been forced to seal up their homes to keep out tens of thousands of the red insects.
The massive swarm of bees had been unwittingly unleashed by two men working at a house in Arizona.
Roboticists have developed a vast swarm of robots that can work together to form two-dimensional shapes.
Police officers swarmed Herefordshire's Crown Inn on Sunday in search of the stolen Nanteos Cup.
The ocean turned a shade of black as up to 100 million fish swarmed the coastline off La Jolla.
A bewildered onlooker filmed the veritable tidal wave of ducks as they flocked down the road en masse.
Swarms of the flying insects have been descending on towns across the country in their thousands.
Meteorologists in Albuquerque were left perplexed when several mysterious hits showed up on their radar.
The pair got more than they bargained for when they took to the waters of Iceland's Lake Myvatn.
A huge swarm of Africanized honey bees attacked an elderly woman and two firefighters in California.
A swarm of jellyfish managed to shut down one of the world's largest nuclear reactors this week.
Stings from swarms of the giant flying insects have left several people dead and hundreds more injured.
A couple who were out exercising their horses ended up being attacked by a swarm of 30,000 bees.
Thousands of the insects have turned some areas in to something reminiscent of a B horror movie.
Some Israelis have found a novel new way to deal with the locust swarm - cooking and eating them.
Two peopled have died after a mass of dangerous spiders swarmed the town of Sadiya in India.
A small town in northern Australia is the scene of an invasion by a massive swarm of 250,000 bats.