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hatrack

(59,584 posts) Thu May 7, 2020, 08:14 AM May 2020

Second Wave Of Locusts Moves Into Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia (Multi-media Article @ Link)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/2020/05/05/locusts-africa-swarms-kenya-ethiopia/

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Second Wave Of Locusts Moves Into Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia (Multi-media Article @ Link) (Original Post) hatrack May 2020 OP

This devastating news. OhNo-Really May 2020 #1

Third wave possible as early as June . . . hatrack May 2020 #2

I saw locust swarms in West Pakistan as a kid back in the 1950s but all is not lost. See link to abqtommy May 2020 #3

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)

1. This devastating news.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2020, 09:10 AM

May 2020

hatrack

(59,584 posts)

2. Third wave possible as early as June . . .

Reply to OhNo-Really (Reply #1)

Thu May 7, 2020, 09:12 AM

May 2020

If it happens, we're screwed, it'll dwarf the previous swarms.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

3. I saw locust swarms in West Pakistan as a kid back in the 1950s but all is not lost. See link to

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2020, 11:15 AM

May 2020

find out that 80% of the human population eats insects so I'll throw another locust on the barby for ya!
( to Paul Hogan)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy

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