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Swarms of locusts have destroyed 170,000 acres of crops in East Africa — and local farmers are nearly helpless to stop it
Watch the full episode here. Locusts have huge appetites. One of these insects can eat its own weight in food in a single day. And they're devastating crops in East Africa, where millions of ...
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Scientists crack the code for why locusts swarm
During these invasions, desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) eat their own weight in food every day. The biblical-scale plague ate through 160,000,000 kilograms of food a day -- enough to feed ...