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Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... 08:24 - May 6 with 969 views

Interesting piece on the BBC website that seems to be given a higher profile after being in the background all week:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-84994842-8967-4dfd-9490-10f805de9f68

Not at all cheerful but perhaps now is a good time to think about how adverse natural phenomena spread and how humans respond.

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Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 09:14 - May 6 with 927 views

StokieBlue

Good article.

This has been ongoing for a few months now, I remember a podcast on it from back then. China were sending a huge number of ducks to Pakistan at the time (at least that's my recollection) in order to try and tackle the locusts.

SB

Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 09:59 - May 6 with 904 views

Churchman

That’s really interesting and the stuff of movies. I remember at school in the last century the mad people that did biology had a dirty great tank of them. Disgusting creatures.

Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 11:40 - May 6 with 885 views

Swansea_Blue

Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 09:59 - May 6 by Churchman
That’s really interesting and the stuff of movies. I remember at school in the last century the mad people that did biology had a dirty great tank of them. Disgusting creatures.

I know a few biologists. They can be a strange bunch, but disgusting creatures is going a bit far.

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Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 14:18 - May 6 with 861 views

Churchman

Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 11:40 - May 6 by Swansea_Blue
I know a few biologists. They can be a strange bunch, but disgusting creatures is going a bit far.

They used to pick up roadkill and boil off the flesh to reveal the skeletons, a rat tank with loads of live ones - they had some arrangement with a local lab of some sort, frogs, mice, all sorts. It was a subject I ducked out of as soon as I could.

Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 14:37 - May 6 with 851 views

The_Last_Baron

At primary school we had a big glass case of live locusts got a while. There must have been 200 of them in it. All they did all day was sit on top of each other. I can see why they breed and spread so quickly as it was a giant orgy all day, every day.

I've not idea what became of them. They just disappeared one day.

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Interestingly, Las Vegas had.... on 14:43 - May 6 with 846 views

Bloots

….a plague of them last year and it's relatively common there.

It happens when they get heavy rainfall apparently.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12255615

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Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 17:41 - May 6 with 811 views

Leaky

Locusts, just to make a change from Covid-19 threads... on 14:18 - May 6 by Churchman
They used to pick up roadkill and boil off the flesh to reveal the skeletons, a rat tank with loads of live ones - they had some arrangement with a local lab of some sort, frogs, mice, all sorts. It was a subject I ducked out of as soon as I could.

Yes I chose woodwork instead as well

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