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African Locust Plague

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Locusts are devastating East Africa June 23 2020. Hundreds of billions of locusts in swarms the size of major cities are laying waste to the crops in their path. This Is Huge Locust Swarms In Africa Are Worst In Decades East Africas plague of locusts and the bizarre climate science behind it Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia where such numbers havent. African locust plague . Now as the biblical-sized swarms ravage crop and pastureland scientists and forecasters are racing against the clock to understand and combat these pests. Locusts are a pest that have plagued farmers for more than a millenia or basically as long as humanity can remember. The COVID-19 pandemic isnt the Earths only plague right now. Locust outbreak could leave nearly 5 million people in Africa facing starvation. A plague amid a pandemic. Swarming in the trillions they are destroying precious pastures and crops in what is considered the worst regi...

Africa Locust Swarm

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And its threatening to wreak catastrophe on countries. By June 2019 large swarms were on the move traveling over the Red Sea to Ethiopia and Somalia. This Is Huge Locust Swarms In Africa Are Worst In Decades Locust Swarms Threaten Parts Of East Africa Swarms of locusts have reached dangerous levels in parts of Ethiopia Somalia and Kenya. Africa locust swarm . Theyre reproducing rapidly in part because of. For example when last years cyclones. Swarms can range in size from less than half a square mile to 460 square miles with 40 to 80 million locusts. Where in Africa and Asia Are the Locust Swarms. Other impacted countries include South Sudan Yemen and Iran. Such a swarm can consume the equivalent amount of food in a single day as more than 13000 people. East Africa is being destroyed by a huge swarm of locusts - YouTube The biggest swarm of locusts for decades sweeps across East Africa. Trillions of the insects have been destroying crops from Kenya through to Ethi...