The average locust is only five or six centimeters long, not as big as a palm, but they can cause a disaster.
Recently, Kenya has experienced the worst desert locust invasion in 70 years, and many parts of East Africa have also been affected by locusts, and the number of locusts in Africa has rapidly grown to more than 360 billion, which will put about 19 million people at risk of serious food insecurity. Somalia and Ethiopia have declared complete stagnation in agricultural production.
Now the locusts have flown to Asia, rapidly spread to Southeast Asia, and now have reached Iran, Pakistan, India and other places, and the number of local locusts in India has reached more than 400 billion. It's not spring now, and if it's spring and the weather warms up, that number could double. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), "the trend of locust plague expansion is likely to continue into June this year, when the size of the locust swarm can even grow to 500 times the current size." ”
To know that India and Pakistan are very close to China, how close, let's look at the map, it is our neighbor.
The closest regions to these countries are our Xinjiang and Tibet. Twenty years ago, in May, there was a large-scale locust plague in northern Xinjiang, affecting 2.03 million hectares. Fortunately, at that time, 30,000 ducks were airlifted from Zhejiang to use as "warriors" to eliminate locusts. By June 2001, Xinjiang had invested nearly 700,000 chickens and ducks in the "battle."
If this locust plague is introduced from neighboring countries, Xinjiang, Tibet and Yunnan will take the lead in fighting, and in the face of this menacing locust army, how many chicken and duck fighters will be sent to resist the disaster this time?
Then again, why is the locust plague so terrible.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first point the locusts are extremely capable of reproduction</h1>
Locusts can reproduce every three weeks, and the requirements for spawning grounds are small, locusts generally like to lay eggs in the soil, soil moisture content of about 10%-20% is the most suitable for spawning, so locust plagues often occur during the dry season. Even without such suitable land they can still reproduce, in short, as long as there is land, so there are too many places in the world that can provide them with "nursery rooms".
They lay a large number of eggs, and when they encounter arid land, they can have 4,000 or 50,000 eggs per square meter, and each egg block has 50-80 eggs, which means that 200,000 to 400,000 eggs can be produced per square meter.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second point is that you can eat it without being picky</h1>
As we all know, locusts live by eating plants, and they are not like some organisms that only eat a few types of plants, locusts are basically plants, such as corn, wheat, rice, sorghum, barley and other crops, which are planted in large areas of our Asian region, and people eat most often.
Grasses like monocotyledons and pointed leaves, which in turn are plants that are basically found everywhere, so all this provides plenty of food for locusts to survive.
The above resources at our fingertips provide the most important factor for the formation of locust plagues, this time our country is facing more than 400 billion locusts, nature also has their methods, according to statistics, China currently has 68 kinds of natural enemies of locusts. Coupled with the biological and chemical measures we have imposed such as green pesticides, I believe that our country is ready to fight at any time.
When adversity comes, how do we "fight" and how do we "defend" our homeland? There is a novel about the local magnetic reversal and the disaster that comes.
A group of people boarded Noah's Ark, ready for the arrival of a new era, and they called themselves the new human beings. Those who did not board Noah's Ark, struggling to survive on the ground, called themselves survivors. After the disaster, they discovered that they had magical abilities, and a magnificent era began.
What kind of sparks will the new humans and survivors rub out? Where does the future of humanity go? How will a 16-year-old teenager survive in this last days of the weak and the strong? Will he be able to achieve a generation of heroes in the last days and lead mankind to a new era?
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