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The outbreak began late 2019 in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Three villages in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, which shares a border with Pakistan's desert areas, came under fresh locust attacks in January (2020). In Gujarat, locust attacks in December(2019) damaged crops, mainly rapeseed and cumin seed, planted on about 17,000 hectares.
The migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), sometimes classified into up to 10 subspecies, swarms in Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, but has become rare in Europe. [28] In 2013, the Madagascan form of the migratory locust formed many swarms of over a billion insects, reaching "plague" status and covering about half the country by March ...
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Countries in East Africa are racing against time to prevent new swarms of locusts wreaking havoc with crops and livelihoods after the worst infestation in ...
Desert locust: Locust Plague of 1874: 1874 United States: Rocky Mountain locust: Albert's swarm: 1875 United States: 3.5 – 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locust: 1915 Ottoman Syria locust infestation: 1915 Israel, Lebanon, and Syria: 2003–2005 Africa locust infestation: 2003–05 West Africa 2013 Madagascar locust infestation: 2013 Madagascar ...
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Argentina is facing a plague of locusts. Officials say it's the worst invasion the country has seen in 50 years. %shareLinks-quote="The locusts are covering more than 700,000 hectareas or about 1. ...
1702 New York City yellow fever epidemic 1702 New York City, British North America: ... 2022–2023 mpox outbreak: 2022–2023 Worldwide Mpox: 280 [316] [317] [318] [319]
During a year that Brood X emerged and Ogden Nash was living in Baltimore, The New Yorker magazine published Nash's June 12, 1936, poem Locust-Lovers, Attention!. [39] Nash's 1938 collection I'm a Stranger Here Myself reprinted the humorous verse. [40] His poem The Sunset Years of Samuel Pride mentions the 17–year cyclical swarms of the ...