they should be catching them in big nets and selling to the Chins... they eat anything!!!
Posted on 02/11/2020 2:58:00 AM PST by Windflier
What we are witnessing in east Africa and across much of the Middle East right now is hard to believe. 360 billion locusts are eating everything in sight, and UN officials are warning that this plague of “Biblical proportions” could get many times worse over the next several months.
Desert locusts can travel up to 93 miles a day, and each adult can consume the equivalent of its own weight in food every 24 hours. These voracious little creatures are traveling in absolutely colossal swarms that are up to 40 miles wide, and they continue to push into new areas. If urgent action is not taken on a massive scale, millions upon millions of people could soon have next to nothing to eat.
I have previously written about the horrors that this plague is causing in east Africa, but many people don’t realize that this plague is devastating crops throughout the Middle East as well.
In fact, the government of Pakistan just declared a national emergency because of these locusts…
A locust plague is wreaking havoc in Pakistan as ‘unprecedented and alarming’ swarms ravage crops as shocking video shows millions of the insects sweeping through Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan’s government declared a national emergency at the weekend after an infestation of desert locusts arrived in eastern Pakistan.
In Saudi Arabia, the swarms have been so thick at times that they have completely blocked out the sun, and video footage coming out of that country is getting attention all over the world…
Meanwhile swarms of locusts have been milling the skies in Saudi Arabia, with one video circulating online showing the sky saturated with the insects.
Another shows a tree in Saudi Arabia crawling with desert locusts, which consume their own body weight in food each day.
But of course east Africa remains the hardest hit region, and UN officials are warning that a horrible famine could rapidly develop as a result of this plague.
40+/- miles wide, meh, nothing a nuke can’t solve......
I am sure the climate will change.
They will all be gone in 3 months.
they should be catching them in big nets and selling to the Chins... they eat anything!!!
Moozlem countries affected. It’s the 2nd coming.
Load the crop dusters up with DDT. It would be over quickly. Can’t use anything that might actually work. That wouldn’t be fair.
It has also happened in the American West in 1874 and 1878.
http://historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/image/2012/WW/04%20APR/Locust.jpg
Would this possibly eradicate their Opium and Hashish production? So much for their number one GNP!!
BTW we defeated and extincted the world’s biggest locust horde nearly 150 years ago — check out the history of Rocky Mountain Locusts. Those complaining now aren’t the equal of our ancestors 5 generations ago!
Wheat!?!?
What about the gluten? You heartless bastard! /jk/
OMG! Stoned locusts! Hide your Cheetos!
Th ey need a really big flock of inland seagulls and other birds. The birds are a good ‘green’ way to eradixate bugs. Hope they don’t have windmill fields over there.
I heard about a fellow, a long time ago, who survived on locust and wild honey.
works for me
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