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Chapter 226 Global Locust Plague
"The reporter in front of our station reported that the Philippines is currently suffering from a locust plague. This is the worst locust plague in the past century, and it is a disaster sweeping the world."

"Billions of young desert locusts are flying in from their breeding grounds in the east in search of fresh vegetation that quickly grows with seasonal rains. Millions of people there are at risk, amidst the overwhelming numbers of locusts. In a swarm, the struggle between humans and locusts is often futile.”

"When the locusts pass by, the local crops will face a catastrophe. So far, swarms of locusts have been found in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritre, Tanzania, and Ganggo."

"The current situation in East Philippines is extremely worrying. The locust breeding conditions are good at present, which means that there may be a new wave of locust swarms in the next month, which is the season when local crops start to be harvested."

"In addition to the Philippine region, developing swarms have also appeared in the desert peninsula and surrounding countries. A group of locust swarms that have just shed their skin and are developing even appeared near the Persian Gulf. These countries are currently planting in spring, and the previous wave of locusts gathered On the south coast, new swarms are also increasing."

"From the end of last year to March this year, with their astonishing ability to migrate and reproduce, hundreds of billions of locusts spread from the Philippines to desert areas, and then went straight to South Asia and entered Tianzhu, which once made our country extremely nervous."

"In the past 100 years, the locust plague has risen to the plague level six times, the longest of which spread for 6 years, affecting 13 million square kilometers and involving 2900 countries and regions. This time, it is likely to be a new The worst pest infestation of the century."

"Desert locusts mainly live in desert areas. Once there is no food around, they will migrate in groups, looking for new food and multiplying in large numbers."

"The Global Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently issued a statement stating that in view of the fact that nearly 2000 million people in the affected countries in the East Philippines are already facing severe food insecurity, if the locust plague cannot be effectively contained, it will pose an unprecedented threat to regional food security and livelihoods, which may lead to the displacement of many people. Tensions in the region are rising."

"If left unchecked, the locust infestation will last until August and will lead to massive crop, pasture and forest loss, exacerbate food and feed insecurity, and even cause a global food crisis."

CCTV's news reports suddenly focused on the locust plague thousands of miles away, and immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

Countless people frantically reposted the relevant news, and even those who didn't watch the news broadcast knew that there was a plague of locusts in the Philippines at this time.

The focus of people's attention is not on the Philippines, but on other countries.

Because the locust plague has spread from the Philippines to other places, the locust swarm has passed through the Persian Gulf and is heading towards Asia at high speed.

On the screen of news reports, the dense swarms of locusts covered the sky and the sun, and also covered the forests and fields, completely a scene of the end of the world.

In the affected villages, some farmers tried to drive away the locusts by beating on metal pots, whistling or throwing stones, but to no avail. In the end, they could only look at the locusts around them in frustration and gave up struggling completely.

Such a picture has brought great impact to people. After seeing it, netizens are discussing this matter frantically. Many people can't figure out where there are so many locusts.

Locusts basically lay eggs in soil with very low vegetation coverage. The drier the soil, the greater the amount of eggs laid by locusts.

When the rainy season comes, locusts will hatch out of the soil in large numbers, and hundreds of thousands of locust eggs can even be hatched in one square meter of land.

The arid land of the Philippines was originally an excellent place for locusts to grow, but this time, too many locusts hatched and even formed groups, greatly increasing their ability to harm.

However, in the eyes of most Chinese people, locusts are nothing and will be wiped out soon. The dead locusts can also be used to feed chickens and ducks, or even a delicacy.

"You don't need to worry, locusts can't come to Huaxia, even if they come, it's a dish. I ate fried locusts when I was a child, and it was delicious!"

Netizens discussed with confidence.

"I can eat as much as I come here. I can't finish it. I can also feed it to chickens and ducks. After eating, the eggs will be more delicious and nutritious."

"It's not that there have been locust plagues in China, and which one was not quickly wiped out. We must trust the country and the people."

"Hehe, I don't understand at a glance upstairs. The domestic solution is not to rely on chickens and ducks to eat locusts, but to prevent them. When the locusts are not yet mature, they eat the larvae. But now the scale of locusts is so large, how can there be So many chickens and ducks? It’s too late to raise them now.”

"I don't understand, don't those agricultural experts still understand? If you want to tell me, haha!"

"Don't make a noise, I heard that there is a method of trapping and killing locusts, which can let the locusts automatically get into the bag, and then directly crush and dry it, and then it becomes poultry feed. It is high in protein and nutritious."

"This kind can only deal with small-scale locust plagues, and it requires a lot of labor, the cost is high, and the effect is mediocre. There is no way to deal with a large number of locust swarms. The speed of killing you is not as fast as the breeding speed of locusts."

"This plague of locusts is estimated at tens of billions. How can it be eradicated by manual hunting?"

"Then you can kill them with pesticides, right?"

Pesticides are the most common way to kill pests.

After so many years of development, the types of pesticides are abundant, and the technical content is getting higher and higher. Of course, it is not a problem to kill locusts, but that is only when the number is small. When the number is large, the difficulty of killing increases sharply, and the concentration of pesticides must also be Huge improvements.

Pesticides are chemical substances with high toxicity. When the concentration increases, it will cause serious air pollution and cause ecological imbalance. Not only locusts, but also other insects will be killed, and even birds that eat insects will be killed. A large number of species died.

It is now the 21st century, and governments of all countries attach great importance to environmental protection. If strong pesticides are used, the pot that destroys the ecological balance will be severely buckled.

But when environmental protection conflicts with locust plagues, what should be done?
Someone couldn't help sighing: "Pesticides are indeed too toxic now. They only care about killing insects. Pests are wiped out, and beneficial insects also suffer. Scientists should develop some more environmentally friendly and less toxic pesticides."

"It would be great if there was such a pesticide, which would only kill locusts, not other beneficial insects, and would not cause environmental pollution, even if birds ate the dead locusts."

"If you want to be so beautiful, you must be beautiful too."

"If this kind of pesticide is so easy to develop, then someone has already developed it, and we need to discuss it here?"

"You may not know that locusts will also evolve and become resistant to pesticides. This applies to all pests, so the development of pesticides is really not as simple as you think."

While netizens were discussing enthusiastically, biological experts, agricultural experts, and pesticide experts from all over the world also gathered together to discuss how to deal with this major locust plague that has spread all over the world.

(End of this chapter)