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Dear MEL Topic Readers,
A looming plague
You might know about the unprecedented number of locusts have been flying, migrating and eating crops in many places around the Indian Ocean, from Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan, and India. Having been helped by warmer and rainier weather conditions, locusts have multiplied their numbers more easily than any year in recent decades.
Female locusts can lay more than 150 eggs at a time. Just in two weeks, they hatch into hoppers. It takes just a month for these young hoppers to start flying and laying eggs, and the cycle goes on and on. Once they start flying in swarms, it is too late to stop them efficiently from spreading and migrating. That is what happened this year where spraying pesticides was logistically difficult due to the coronavirus pandemic. They were left uncontrolled and went airborne in June to India and Pakistan and eating crops for humans and laying their eggs.
See these images to learn how devastating locusts are to crops, farmers, and eventually humans in the affected regions.
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/05/africa/locusts/
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