The Indian locust has dealt a major blow to humanity, so why can t this thing be wiped out?

Because locusts are extremely reproductive, even a few locusts can reproduce a large number of colonies in a short period of time. Moreover, India lacks effective means to control locusts, which leads to the phenomenon of inexhaustible locust eradication.

Indian locusts are also called desert locusts, they will be indiscriminately planted in moist soil during the breeding season, with the warming of the earth's climate, the increase of rain, the reproductive success rate of desert locusts is getting higher and higher, with the increase in numbers, desert locusts have also mutated, will release phenylacetonitrile, so that birds will not prey on locusts.

1. According to the ** report, Jiemian News published "How did the locust plague that ate the food of hundreds of millions of people come about?" The article describes in detail the causes and consequences of this wave of locust plagues. The main culprit of the disaster is the desert locust, a locust found mainly in the hot deserts of North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia.

In times of continuous drought and lack of food, the desert locust will switch from solitary to social state; The continuous rainfall and humid weather provided ideal conditions for the sexual reproduction of the locust.

2. The locust plague that plagued East Africa has now spread to Pakistan and India, and is about to reach China, and many people are worried that the locust plague in India will spread to China? Why? Locusts are a very harmful pest to crops, with a strong reproductive ability, the number of eggs laid by a single locust is about 80-120, and the larvae can become adults after 20 days of growth, so the harm of locust plague is very serious for agricultural countries.

3. The locust plague started in East Africa, and under the influence of the monsoon current, the locust plague gradually flew to Pakistan and India, but now it is difficult to spread to China. First of all, locusts are affected by the topography, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is blocked by the border between India and China, so locusts cannot climb such high mountain ranges. Secondly, on the way from India to China, inaccessible, locusts are likely to starve to death because there is not enough food.

Thirdly, when the locust swarm arrives in Pakistan, it is close to the egg-laying period, and the life span of the locusts is very short, only about three months, and the locusts during the egg-laying period do not fly very fast, and it is likely that they will die after laying eggs in India and Pakistan. So at present, the locust plague has not spread to China.

4. However, after the locusts lay eggs, a new round of locust plagues may break out, and the number of locust plagues will increase dozens of times. Although science and technology have been very developed today, there are still serious deficiencies in the management of locust plagues. The most common way is to spray pesticides, but spraying pesticides has a very serious consequence of contaminating water sources or agricultural areas.

Secondly, because the locusts fly too fast and there is no trajectory to be traced in their flight direction, it is difficult to prevent them in advance. The best way to prevent this is to find the locust swarm's spawning grounds after a locust plague and eradicate them from the egg stage.

5. Although this locust plague will not spread to China to a large extent, we still have to take defensive measures to prevent the next locust plague from breaking out, after all, no one can accurately judge where the locust plague will go.

In 1937, the Army National Guard attempted to quell a locust plague across Colorado using flamethrowers. But the flamethrower didn't play much of a role. The locusts adapted easily to the flames and continued to devour farmland.

More than 80 years later, the locust swarm still cannot be contained. Some time earlier, the United Nations announced that desert locusts, the most devastating of the locusts, had attacked East Africa and that their numbers could increase by as much as 500 times in the coming months.

Kenya has not faced such a serious locust threat in nearly 70 years. <>

The locust is a voracious creature that can spread over 460 square miles of land, and has been a scourge for thousands of years, at least in the eyes of humans. Rick Overson, research coordinator for the Global Locust Initiative at Arizona State University, once said, "The best thing humanity can do today is to try to find locust formation sites before a large-scale locust outbreak occurs, and eventually consume large quantities of crops, which are often food for rural dwellers."

Rick Overson explained that when a locust outbreak begins, our general strategy is usually to drop millions of litres of chemical pesticides into that area, which is harmful to the environment and human health.

But pinpointing exactly where locusts begin to congregate can be daunting, especially desert locusts in Africa and adjacent regions, where their habitat is in remote, mostly uninhabited areas, covering an area of about 16 million square kilometers, or more than 6 million square miles. These creatures usually live solitary lives, however, when the right environmental conditions arise (such as after a good rainy season), these creatures are strongly attracted to each other, change color, and often grow longer wings and become stronger, after which they become a fearsome group. <>

But in fact, locusts can easily devour each other, and when the locusts start to swarm and the food starts to disappear, the locusts will start to devour each other, that is, once the resources are limited, they will attack each other. Although locust swarms affect about 1 in 10 people on the planet, we are clearly underfunded for locust swarm research. In part, this is because locusts exist in boom and bust cycles, so in the years between outbreaks, or sometimes decades, we may not have much research interest.

What's more, some experts point out that locust swarms usually do not reach developed countries, so most of them affect the poor, and developed countries have no interest in studying locust plagues. <>

We are now trying to change the situation that we are the victims of locusts, but there is really no good way to solve it.

Locusts are very reproductive, have a strong ability to migrate, and have a wide range of diets, eating almost any plant, so strong survival makes it difficult to be eliminated.

Because locusts are tenacious and the number of races is very large.

Because the locusts are very strong and fast to reproduce, and their numbers are very huge, they cannot be eliminated.

The locust plague in India broke out again, because the locusts were extremely numerous, and in India, they laid their own larvae, so now these locusts have come out again, and it is not easy to get rid of them at all.

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I think the reasons are as follows:

Locusts have been spreading in Africa for a long time, and it takes some time for locusts to reach India. Before the locusts arrived, India had a coping strategy and prepared the supplies that needed to be prepared.

In order to deal with the locust plague with all their might, India and Pakistan have also begun to make peace, and the armies of the two countries are no longer facing each other. India mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to exterminate the locusts.

It is precisely because they are well prepared and respond in a timely manner that they do not give the locusts a lot of time to wreak havoc.

We all know that India still has a lot of research in the pharmaceutical industry, and they use a lot of organophosphorus pesticides and spray them on crops through airplanes.

This kind of lethality is a catastrophe for locusts. It can be said that most of the locusts are eliminated by planes + pesticides.

The second is that the locusts have reached the egg-laying stage, and the lifespan of the locusts is only three months, and they have come all the way from Africa. After arriving in India, it became the end of the crossbow.

In fact, most of the locusts begin to enter the spawning period when they arrive in India, and they do not have much vitality during this period, just like grasshoppers after autumn, even if they are not treated well, they will not live long.

Therefore, whether it is artificial or drug, this period can bring disaster to them.

Although India has brought a large number of locust plagues under control. However, India also faces the threat of locust plagues, which lay eggs in India.

It can be said that these eggs in the ground, if they are not driven out, they can still pose a threat to them. Therefore, in the future, India can only be regarded as completely eradicating the locusts by killing the eggs of the locusts.

In the end, India is much more powerful than other countries that have experienced locusts. After all, the locusts have basically not encountered opponents along the way, but when they arrive in India, they have become their common grave.

I have to say that India's development in recent years has been quite good, at least the degree of modernization has increased a lot, and science and technology have made a lot of progress.

Only with modern technology can such a large-scale locust plague be eradicated.

400 billion locusts, doing evil in India, happened in February 2020, when my country was still in the midst of intense epidemic prevention and control, and his own chores had not been removed, so how could he be in the mood to pay attention to the trivial matters of his neighbors, so the news did not bring too much shock to the people who ate melons at that time.

To our shock: only a week or so later, a new report came out: the locust plague was gone! Game over!

Ah San always refreshes our three views with strange behaviors again and again, and this time it is the same, is it the invention of a new type of insecticide? Or do you have high technology? Anyway, people are not talking nonsense, the locusts were indeed killed by the Indians.

To know the real reason, listen to me in detail.

400 billion locusts, where do they come from and where are they going As early as 2018, there was a massive outbreak of locusts in desert areas on both sides of the Red Sea, and after two tropical storms, the number increased exponentially, surging 9,000 times in nine months.

When the locust army grew into a group army, it began to migrate to East Africa, flying over the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and entering Somalia, Ethiopia and other countries.

After June 2019, the proud Locust Army left Kenya and began to officially settle in India to start a new round of sweeps.

How did India kill 400 billion locusts in a short period of time In fact, no country has ever killed such a large number of locusts in a short period of time, let alone Ah San. In fact, the Indian people began to prepare for the eradication of locusts as early as the second half of 2019.

In terms of the Ministry of Agriculture, hundreds of thousands of sprayers have been purchased, and at the same time, drones have been used to spray pesticides to kill locusts in a large area, and these visitors are strictly controlled in 5 areas and not allowed to migrate to other places.

As a result, the army and the people united as one, worked together to exterminate the locusts, and after more than half a year of hard fighting, the locusts were wiped out in late February.

Therefore, it is because we do not really understand the actual situation of the Indian people in fighting locusts, but this victory also shows that we are fully capable of winning this battle in the face of locust plagues.

For peasants, grain is the foundation of their lives, and they go out early and return late every day, guarding one acre and three points of land, planting grain crops, hoping to have a good harvest and get more money at the end of the year. In order to ensure the yield of crops, farmers in every household will carry out insect and weed treatment to prevent insects from invading crops. However, the world is unpredictable, sometimes when the insect plague comes, farmers are helpless, because the number is too large, the cost of insecticide is too high, so they can only manually remove insects, but it is often a drop in the bucket.

Take the first locust plague as an example, 400 billion locusts struck and began to eat crops on a large scale, leaving only some weeds and food where the locusts passed, leaving only their excrement and the tears of farmers. However, some people are curious, where have such a large number of locusts gone? It seems that it disappeared overnight, but in fact it has something to do with the measures taken by East African countries.

India is one of the countries affected by the locust plague, and the damage is very serious, large areas of farmland have been eaten by locusts, and even caused panic among the Indian people. Because the locusts are menacing and there are too many of them, India has not taken timely measures, resulting in a continuous decrease in the total amount of food, and food shortages have begun to appear. India itself is a relatively poor country with a very large population, so India began to send out a plea for help to the international community, hoping to find a solution, and the next measures taken by India can be regarded as doing its part to eradicate locusts.

In fact, Iran has invisibly helped India in the eradication of locusts. At the height of India's fire, heavy rain began to fall in Iran, and the warm and humid environment was an excellent breeding ground for locusts, so locusts began to fly to Iran in large areas. And this is undoubtedly a relief for India.

As soon as the locusts flew to Iran on a large scale, India began spraying all farmland with pesticides to kill the eggs left behind by the locusts, thus addressing the root causes.

Although it is said that India has survived the locust crisis this time and reduced its losses, it still cannot be taken lightly, and once the locusts break out again, the consequences will be unimaginable. In fact, there have been many locust plagues throughout history, each of which caused famine and countless people began to live on the streets and become refugees. Although we are no longer in a society that is comparable to others, we still need to prevent it.