sidetrackedmeanderings:

Senegalese children run as locusts spread into the capital Dakar September 1, 2004. Source: Reuters. 

The third element by which the swarm constitutes a war machine is
its relationship to weaponry. Nomad war machines have a special
relationship with projectile weapons, and ‘anything that throws or is
thrown is fundamentally a weapon, and propulsion is its essential moment’
(ATP, p. 395). As the locusts are themselves thrown forward, both under
their own power and that of the wind,

the insects and their weapons cannot be differentiated between; they are one and the same thing. This makes the locusts flatter with the war machine than their human counterparts.7

[7.The closest comparison with human weaponry, in terms of affect, would
be area impact munitions, such as cluster bombs, which generate antipersonnel metal storms over large areas. However, whilst the metal storms
themselves are completely indiscriminate and indeterminate, cluster bombs
still have to be aimed and released by human operators. In contradistinction, the affect and the mode of dispersal of the insect war machine are inseparable.]

Nomadic Trajectories, Sellars, J. PLI Warwick Journal of Philosophy Volume 7 1998 ://web.warwick.ac.uk/philosophy/pli_journal/pdfs/pli_7.pdf