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Could Africa’s locust swarms happen here?

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Feb 8, 2020 #locust, #swarms
Could Africa’s locust swarms happen here?

By Jacqueline Howard

Updated.

February 08, 2020 15: 04:05

A young farmer bats away locusts from vegetation.

One African country has actually declared a nationwide emergency situation over the swarms. What’s the risk of Australia facing something comparable?

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The sky is dotted with black insects like a galaxy of stars.

Think the flies and mozzies are bad at the moment? Envision remaining in East Africa today.

A man in a field is barely visible behind a cloud of insects

A massive desert locust pester has actually hit the region and is ravaging plant life and threatening food security and incomes on an extraordinary scale.

A plane on the tarmac. It's ordinarily white nose is mottled yellow brown with insect streaks.

The locusts swarms are so dense, an Ethiopian Airlines plane was required off course in January when clouds of the bugs slammed into the engines, windscreen and nose.

A photo taken from a mountain peak looking over the range. The sky is so completely dotted with insects, it resembles snowfall.

Billions of locusts have swarmed throughout the east of the continent. In Kenya, one specific swarm alone is roughly 2,400 km 2 broad, which is estimated to be a minimum of 96 billion locusts.

A close up of a number of locusts crowded onto branches. Some are standing on top of others.

A desert locust adult can consume approximately its weight in fresh food each day, (about 2 grams). A 1km 2– size swarm includes at least 40 million locusts, which consume the very same amount of food in one day as about 35,000 people.

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