Let's talk about the desert locusts
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Since 2020
The desert locust plague has attracted widespread attention from the international community
From West Africa to East Africa, from West Asia to South Asia
Many areas are suffering
The worst locust plague in 25 years
The culprit of this round of locust plagues is the desert locust
It can be a breeze
Devastating food production
An army of locusts that "shade the sky and cover the sun"
Desert locusts first appeared on the Arabian Peninsula
They have the ability to migrate long distances
Soon they rushed out of East Africa
Pounce on West Asia, Pakistan, India
Come to the periphery of the continent
So here's the problem —
What does the Desert Locust look like?
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How terrible is the danger of desert locusts?
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The Desert Locust (scientific name: Schistorca Gregoria) is a short-legged insect in the genus Desert Locust in the family Locustaceae and is considered the most destructive migratory pest in the world. In order to adapt to the harsh living conditions of the desert, the desert locust will undergo a sudden change of ecological phase, that is, from diaspora to social settlement. Desert locusts in the diaspora will not bring disaster to mankind. Desert locusts in a social state can form large-scale swarms of locusts, numbering up to billions, spanning large areas of land. During its migration, it can eat a variety of vegetation on the ground in tons.
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A brief history of desert locust life
The total survival time of desert locusts is about 3 to 5 months. The life cycle consists of three stages: eggs, nymphs and adults.
Desert locust eggs
Sandy soil 10 to 15 cm below the surface, yellow egg mass, 3 to 4 cm, elongated, covered foamy oocyst.
Desert locust nymphs
Body length 0.7 to 4.5 cm, pale green, rose or black brown, wings, no or beginning to fly ability.
Desert locust adults
The body length is 45.8 to 55.3 mm for males and 50.7 to 61.0 mm for females. Body color, gregarious light rose, brownish red, sexual maturity is bright yellow; Scattered pale green, light gray, sexual maturity is grayish yellow or gray. The top of the head has pale stripes that extend backwards to the posterior edge of the dorsal plate of the anterior thorax. The posterior femoral segment is yellow, the upper knee is brown, and the lower knee is yellow. The anterior and posterior wings are narrow and long, beyond the end of the posterior femoral segment, with dark brown spots on the upper part.
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Desert locust infestation
The desert locust is an explosive, migratory and devastating pest, originating in Africa, and is the number one pest that causes locust plagues in Africa in its nearly 1,000-year history, with a total area of 29 million square kilometers in the invasion area of the entire African continent, the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast.
Desert locusts have long posed a serious threat to agricultural production, and the potential for destruction by locust swarms is enormous, with a swarm of 1 square kilometre eating as much a day as 35,000 people. Secondly, it will seriously threaten the local ecological security, destroy ecological diversity, and destroy not only crops, but also a large number of plants.
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A lot of people will be worried
Desert locusts will not invade China
Don't worry
★ Natural barrier
Flip open the map and you will find
There is a towering mountain range between China and India
Himalayas
★ Human prevention and control
According to
"The Royal Locust Is Outside the Country and Preparing for War at Home"
Prevention strategies
Strengthen the monitoring of insect situations in areas that may be relocated, and timely early warning
Set up 500,000 acres of emergency prevention and control tasks
Supporting the establishment of professional prevention and control teams
Reserve emergency prevention and control materials
Once the flight is moved in, emergency prevention and control is immediately launched
Customs, agriculture and rural areas and forestry and grassland sectors
In accordance with their respective terms of reference
Do a good job of port monitoring, entry quarantine, agricultural areas and forests respectively
as well as grassland monitoring
Customs guard the security of the country's gates, and the "epidemic" cannot be resigned
Strengthen intrusion prevention and control, and strengthen risk analysis
1 ● Carry out a series of activities such as publicizing the law, entering the campus and entering the community with knowledge of national biosecurity and relevant laws and regulations, guiding the broad masses of the people to enhance their awareness of national security and jointly safeguarding national biosecurity.
2 ● Conduct regular on-the-job training to make each staff member proficient in desert locust detection technology and not miss a single suspicious place in the work.
3 ● Establish a desert locust epidemic monitoring team, effectively strengthen the quarantine supervision of imported animals and plants, their products and means of transport, and continuously improve the prevention and control capabilities at the ports of invasive alien species.
4 ● Regularly carry out emergency drills on the prevention and control of desert locusts, learn lessons from them, and gradually improve the quarantine inspection and terminal sanitize process.
5 ● Further strengthen contacts and communication with joint defense departments, collect and study locust infestation information. Further strengthen contacts and communication with joint defense departments to collect and study locust infestation information.
Strict entry quarantine and strengthen entry supervision
1 ● Inbound cargo, including cargo gaps, inbound container interior, bottom gaps. Inbound cargo, including cargo gaps, inbound containers inside, bottom gaps.
2 ● Inbound aircraft, including hatch doors, inner walls, bottoms, gaps, lampshades, cargo, baggage gaps, luggage racks, seat bottoms, lampshades and pantry food cabinets, pantry tables, storage cabinets, etc. Inbound aircraft, including door doors, inner walls, bottoms, gaps, lampshades, cargo, baggage gaps, luggage racks, seat bottoms, lampshades and pantry pantries, pantries, pantries, etc.
3 ● Passengers entering the country, including items that may carry insect eggs in their personal clothing and belongings. Passengers entering the country, including items that may carry insect eggs on their personal clothing and belongings.
Tips
Customs reminds you that it is forbidden to bring and send live animals, fresh fruits, vegetables, cut flowers, soil and organic cultivation media, including roots, leaves, stems, seeds, insects and insect eggs, etc. when entering the country.
It is everyone's responsibility to resist disasters outside the gates of the country
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