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Topic Reading-Vol.2884-3/4/2020
Dear MEL Topic Readers,
China may send ducks to battle Pakistan’s locust swarms
As said in Vol.2860 on February 9th, grasshoppers are usually solitary and harmless to humans. However, under certain circumstances, they change their behavior and habits and become more abundant, gregarious, and nomadic, called locusts. Although an adult locust eats its own weight in food daily, or about one half of a gram, when they become gregarious, they eat more and travel over 100 kilometers in a day and eat anything they find on the way.
Now, locusts have invaded and devastated in Pakistan, causing the worst infestation in two decades. One of its neighbors, China, which has been busy fighting coronavirus for two months, is trying to give Pakistan their hands to combat the locust swarms. This time, not with high-tech machines like drones or artificial pesticides but with a natural predator, ducks. They eat over 200 locusts a day, three times more than chickens do. Furthermore, they’ll provide eggs and meat when they retire from their jobs. Sounds like a win-win solution, doesn’t it?
Enjoy reading the article and think if humans can make use of the natural food chain to solve a problem in nature.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51658145
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