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Of locusts invaded the west of India. The swarms, which came into the country of Pakistan, which are spreading like a wildfire and so far have invaded five states: Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. There is a warning for the national capital of Delhi also.
What makes the lobsters in a concern for the farmers and the farmers is that you can eat almost any type of crop and finish an entire field in a few hours.
But there are some interesting facts about the migratory pests. Here are some of them:
• The locusts are considered halal or lawful food in Islam. According to the Salafist in the Centre of Manchester, the grasshoppers are permissible food because it was eaten during the time of the Prophet. The pest were consumed during a military raid, said in an authentic hadith, according to the Salafist Center.
• The desert locust, the sub-species of the grasshopper-like pests, originated in Saudi Arabia and that he eats there. Even the Yemeni relish the lobsters during Ramzan. There are reports that some European travelers had seen people in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Morocco, selling, cooking and eating lobsters.
• Swarms have been recorded in the Arabian peninsula and some countries in Africa since biblical times, but unusual weather patterns exacerbated by climate change have created ideal conditions for insect numbers increase, scientists say.
• These heats have been infested 23 countries from all over East Africa, the Middle East and South Asia in the year 2020, the largest outbreak in 70 years, the World Bank said. Last week, the bank approved a record $500 million in grants and low-interest loans to help countries in Africa and the Middle East to fight against the swarms of the desert locust.
• Adult desert locust swarms can fly up to 150 km per day, with the wind and the insects, adult can consume roughly its own weight in fresh food per day. A single square kilometre of swarm can eat the amount of food in a day than 35,000 people.
• They eat almost all the green of the vegetation leaves, flowers, bark, stems, fruits, and seeds and crops, including millet, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, barley, cotton, fruit trees, date palms, vegetables, meadows, grasses, acacias, pines, and banana.
• Desert locusts change their behaviour to act as individuals to be part of a group, forming dense and mobile hordes. Swarms can be several hundreds of square kilometres and extremely dense, with up to 80 million of adults in each square kilometre.
• The last major infestation was in the period 2003-2005, when more than 12 million hectares were treated in the west and the northwest of Africa, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, including food aid.
Sources: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations; the Government of New South Wales, Victoria State Government; University of Minnesota; Natural Earth; the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative; u.s. Geological survey through the Famine Early Warning Systems Network; the Armed Conflict and Location Event Data Project (ACLED); Reuters
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