It is an insect that belongs to the grasshopper family. These insects are harmless unless it meets certain conditions like climate change, environment changes, etc these lead to behavior changes. India, Pakistan and currently thinking over the locust plague. When these locusts meet certain conditions like environment changes they get together and start breeding abundantly. The dense locust is called the swarm and keeps moving, damaging the crops and destroy the entire agriculture economy, it is referred to as locust plague.
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Locust swarm
There are four types of locust desert locust, migratory locust, Bombay locust and tree locust, these locust form plague. The swam that affects these year are desert locust. When locust get suitable environment there behavior changes, they change color and grow large. They transform themselves from solitary animals into the animal that starts breeding, which forms millions of swarms. These cause due to the strong rain or amid damp environment conditions.
They travel in search of food. As crops are something which is present more in the fields, the locust swarms settle on a field to consume the entire vegetation.
A typical locust swarm can be made up to 150 million locusts per square kilometers and is carries on the wind, up to 150 Km in one day. Evan a small, one square kilometer locust swarm can eat the same amount of food in one day as about 35000 people assuming that one person consumes around 2.3 kg of food every day.
Locust plague in countries
The desert plague traveled through middle east, Iran and Pakistan and entered India. In February 2020, the UN food and agriculture Organisation announced the desert locust are destroying tens and thousands of hectares of crops and grazing land in North East Africa in the worst invasion in 25 years, it affects Eastern Ethiopia and spread to other East Africa countries like Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan.Locust plague history
There are four types of locust desert locust, migratory locust, Bombay locust and tree locust, these locust form plague. The swam that affects these year are desert locust. When locust get suitable environment there behavior changes, they change color and grow large. They transform themselves from solitary animals into the animal that starts breeding, which forms millions of swarms. These cause due to the strong rain or amid damp environment conditions.
They travel in search of food. As crops are something which is present more in the fields, the locust swarms settle on a field to consume the entire vegetation.
A typical locust swarm can be made up to 150 million locusts per square kilometers and is carries on the wind, up to 150 Km in one day. Evan a small, one square kilometer locust swarm can eat the same amount of food in one day as about 35000 people assuming that one person consumes around 2.3 kg of food every day.
Locust plague in countries
The desert plague traveled through middle east, Iran and Pakistan and entered India. In February 2020, the UN food and agriculture Organisation announced the desert locust are destroying tens and thousands of hectares of crops and grazing land in North East Africa in the worst invasion in 25 years, it affects Eastern Ethiopia and spread to other East Africa countries like Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan.Locust plague history
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