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The Locust Plague of 1874, or the Grasshopper Plague of 1874, occurred in the summer of 1874 when hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts invaded the Great Plains in the United States and Canada. The locusts swarmed over an estimated 2,000,000 square miles (5,200,000 km 2) and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage. Residents described swarms so ...
Schistocerca cancellata is polyphagous, damaging a wide range of crops and forage plants. It is probably the most economically damaging of all the locust species. It was estimated that in 1933, locusts destroyed 2 million tons of cereals and other annual crops.
In Gujarat, locust attacks in December(2019) damaged crops, mainly rapeseed and cumin seed, planted on about 17,000 hectares. Parts of western Rajasthan have destroyed crops spread over at least 350,000 hectares of land.
An invasion of locusts has spread across Pakistan, officials said Friday, causing damage to crops and orchards and posing a threat to food security in an impoverished Islamic nation already ...
But this generation has hatched in Kenya's poorest region, and the young locusts are eating everything in sight. [Farmer Christopher Lotit, saying:] "They have destroyed our maize, pawpaw tree, so ...
A single square kilometer swarm can eat as much food in a day as 35,000 people and the FAO warned last month that, left unchecked, the number of locusts in East Africa could explode by 500 times ...
In such circumstances, locusts increased very rapidly. By early 2004, the threat materialized as swarms of locusts started to form and move north into important agricultural areas in Morocco and Algeria, inflicting damage to crops. The collective fear, expressed by the FAO and news organizations covering the situation, was the potential ...
1962 Nepal experienced the first recorded locusts attack as per Government of Nepal [1] 1996 the swarms destroyed 80% of crops in Chitwan and partially damaged crops in the Makwanpur, Mahottari and Bara districts. [1] 2020 June/July The locusts were spotted in Bara, Sarlahi, Parsa and Rupandehi districts. [2] The swarms came to Nepal via Odisa ...