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  2. 2019–2022 locust infestation - Wikipedia

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    2019–2022 locust infestation. Between June 2019 and February 2022, a major outbreak of desert locusts began developing, threatening food supplies in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. The outbreak was the worst to hit Kenya in 70 years, and the worst in 25 years for Ethiopia, Somalia, and India. [3] [4]

  3. Locusts: The 8th Plague - Wikipedia

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    John Quinn. Music by. Pierpaolo Tiano. Release date. November 12, 2005. ( 2005-11-12) Running time. 88 minutes. Locusts: The 8th Plague is a 2005 natural horror film directed by Ian Gilmour and starring Dan Cortese, Julie Benz and David Keith about a group of farmers and scientists that battle a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that have escaped ...

  4. 2003–2005 African locust outbreak - Wikipedia

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    Satellite imagery of western Africa detailing the vegetation affected by locusts and drought in 2004 and 2005, respectively. During the summer of 2004, large numbers of swarms from Northwest Africa invaded the Sahel in West Africa and quickly moved into crops. By then, the threat of a locust plague emerged, creating one of the most dangerous ...

  5. Desert locust - Wikipedia

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    The desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria [1] [2] [3]) is a species of locust, a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. They are found primarily in the deserts and dry areas of northern and eastern Africa, Arabia, and southwest Asia. During population surge years, they may extend north into parts of Southern ...

  6. Locusts (2005 film) - Wikipedia

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    Release. April 24, 2005. ( 2005-04-24) Locusts (also called Locusts: Day of Destruction outside the United States) is a natural horror television film directed by David Jackson, and starring Lucy Lawless, Dylan Neal, John Heard and Gregory Alan Williams as a group of scientists, farmers and government officials as they attempt to stop a swarm ...

  7. Locust - Wikipedia

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    In the desert locust plague in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia that lasted from 1966 to 1969, the number of locusts increased from two to 30 billion over two generations, but the area covered decreased from over 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi) to 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi). Solitary and gregarious phases

  8. African migratory locust - Wikipedia

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    The Desert Locust Control Organisation of East Africa remained an effective body, but elsewhere little monitoring was done, with civil wars in Chad and the Central African Republic hindering the detection of outbreaks. In many countries, few resources were available to deal with any outbreaks that were discovered. This plague lasted until 1986.

  9. Argentina is facing the worst locust plague in 50 years - AOL

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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. ...

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