Where locusts go, not a single blade of grass remains; fierce bombardment, seeing green means eating—are locusts really that terrifying?
Saharan locusts sweep across East Africa and parts of Asia. Reports indicate that locusts originated from the Red Sea, dividing into two routes to devour the crops of most countries in East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, etc. They also moved east through Iran into South Asia, locally devouring crops in India and Pakistan.
The appearance of locusts has prompted India and Pakistan to join forces in resisting the locusts, which highlights the terrifying nature of the locusts.
According to reports, Pakistan dispatched hundreds of crop-spraying aircraft in this locust combat, with one aircraft unfortunately crashing. Countless micro-combatants, with their devastating power, are said to be able to eat and body-weight food in one day, and one square kilometer of locust swarms can devour the daily rations of 35,000 people. If left unchecked, food will become the biggest problem for humanity in the future.
Saharan locusts are different from the small locusts (crickets) we usually see. Saharan locusts are large, prefer dry weather, and have the following characteristics, how should we deal with them?
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Due to the locusts' long-distance travel, they have developed strong physiques, unlike normal locusts, the individual size of the non-locusts is twice that of the normal locusts, the body color is biased towards brown, and they are fierce. They also have toxicity. Countless locusts are difficult to eat completely, even if said by netizens to fry, and they also have a slight toxicity. It is not recommended to fry them to eat.
Locusts are timid and don't like to act alone. The locusts we see are groups of locust swarms, which increases the damage to crops. It's not very effective to drive them away manually.
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We saw on the internet that using chickens and ducks to deal with locusts is still feasible. According to reports, one duck can eat 100 locusts a day, and this will reduce the locusts to some extent. It is said that there was a region in the past that used chickens and ducks to eliminate locust plagues.
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It's still not enough to rely on chickens and ducks to deal with non-locusts, we still need to rely on spraying and sunning pesticides, chemical methods are more effective in killing insects, but using chemical methods to kill insects also has many drawbacks, which can kill many birds, amphibians, and poultry that feed on locusts. This is something we don't want to see.
Ancient plagues of insects were rampant, and there were small or large locust plagues every year. A small locust could make an entire country suffer from famine and directly cause the demise of the country. China's control over locust plagues is quite mature, and even if the non-locusts have the ability to cross the Himalayas, it is unlikely to enter the mainland.
The non-locust's biggest feature is to like dry environments, crossing the Himalayas is impossible, reports indicate that the non-locusts are most likely to enter China through the Yunnan border, with Yunnan, India and Pakistan unable to control locust plagues, anything is possible, to deal with locusts, there is only a good preparation, seize the initiative, in order to make the small non-locusts have no entry and no return, and regret entering China.
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