What is a locust, and what makes it different from a grasshopper? That’s a simple question — but it doesn’t have a simple answer. Triggered by factors such as weather and agricultural practices, the once-solitary insects become social creatures, seemingly in the blink of an eye.
These unwanted visitors descended on Las Vegas in July 2019 in a swarm so big, it could be spotted on radar. And in January 2020, Kenya is in the midst of a desert locust outbreak, which has already caused serious damage to farmland there and in Somalia and Ethiopia.
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Explores the economic devastation locusts can wreak on a region and what can be done to try to mitigate the problem.
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