On February 10, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released that the breeding of desert locusts in the Horn of Africa region is still continuing, and the number of locusts in the deserts of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia has reached 360 billion, and wherever the swarms fly, the local crops have not been harvested.
The written records, especially the overwhelming locusts in the accompanying pictures, all give domestic readers a shocking feeling, feeling that the beginning of 2020 seems to be unlucky all over the world, especially the new crown virus pneumonia, so that more than 1 billion people are living in the background of the difficult to walk at home, all the unfavorable information from the outside world seems to amplify people's anxiety.
Locust plagues have swept through Pakistan in the Middle East, South Asia and the Indian states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, of which Pakistan has declared a national emergency to fight insect pests;
In addition, the ferocious locusts have affected 370,000 hectares of farmland in India, with economic losses of more than 10 billion rupees and the locusts still moving.
Locusts, is a plant-eating animal, tenacious vitality, can inhabit grasslands, mountains, forests, low-lying areas, semi-arid areas and other places, suitable development temperature of 25-32 °C, relative humidity of 85%-92%, below 14 °C or higher than 40 °C, will gradually stop eating death, these knowledge about locusts from Sogou Encyclopedia.
However, in India, Pakistan and other places where locusts are infested with locusts, although the locusts have a gradual migration trend, there is no need to worry about causing disasters to China, the reason is that the locust swarms cannot fly over the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the altitude and cold climate are the dead nests of locusts and the insurmountable shortcomings.
And the locusts borrowed the humid oceanic climate and moved along the sea breeze to fly from Africa to the Indian Ocean coast with the wind, and successfully landed in countries such as India and Pakistan in South Asia, but these locusts still wanted to continue to fly east when they were hindered by the Himalayas.
Between India and China, across the Himalayas, is the world's highest mountain range, which can be said to be a natural barrier, which effectively blocks the spread of locusts to China, so there is no need to worry about the impact of Indian locusts on China.
Even if a few locusts with extremely strong vitality have flown over the Himalayas and successfully entered the territory of China, they have not been able to make waves, because the Chinese government has organized effective anti-locust plagues and farmers have rich experience in fighting locusts.
Besides, there are so many foodies in China, all nestled at home, really lack of delicious, barbecue locusts, absolutely a delicacy, are eating crops to grow and develop, locusts are very plump and succulent, meaty fat and refreshing.