The phrase "plague of insects" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a large or overwhelming number of insects causing an issue or infestation. Example: The farmers were devastated by the plague of insects that destroyed their crops and livelihood.
The indigo crop, until then a major moneymaker, had collapsed after two years of drought followed by two of a plague of insects that stripped the stalks naked.
Mr. Hatch does recount a plague of insects descending on Monticello while Jefferson was away, as secretary of state, and his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph writing to him in despair.
And down in his fields he sees another scourge: a plague of insects.
Pharaonic plagues of insects make me long for the traffic fumes of the city.
Application of insecticidal or fungicidal sprays from the ground or from low-flying aircraft offer a short-term measure to check sudden plagues of insects or outbreaks of fungal diseases.
There are also larger works such as his plague of steel insects, plus – of course – his drawings and animations; lots of them.
The wrath of god is the traditional explanation for plagues of marauding insects that devour everything in their path.
About 25 years ago, the building of another dam more than 200 miles east of here flooded her property, driving a plague of poisonous snakes, insects and jaguars onto her land, she said, before submerging it completely.
That's still quite a lot of waste to shift in a week and with the Environment Agency keeping quiet, several of the residents I spoke to were worried about the next bout of hot weather and another plague of shitting, vomiting insects confining them to their sweltering homes, windows locked, streets surrendered to the clouds of flying pestilence outside.
The reindeer are driven to large herds in Midsummer by the plague of blood-sucking insects and in autumn by rutting season.
Warburg stated, Just as there are many remote causes of plague, heat, insects, rats, but only one common cause, the plague bacillus, there are a great many remote causes of cancer-tar, rays, arsenic, pressure, urethane- but there is only one common cause into which all other causes of cancer merge, the irreversible injuring of respiration.
