Between June 2019 and February 2022, a major outbreak of desert locusts began developing, threatening food supplies in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula...
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Locust swarms have been recorded throughout history. Those which have their own Wikipedia articles are listed here, but there are many more notable ones...
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Locusts (derived from the Latin locusta, locust or lobster) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming...
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The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a species of locust, a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. They are...
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The Locust Plague of 1874, or the Grasshopper Plague of 1874, occurred in the summer of 1874 when hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts invaded the Great Plains...
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especially vulnerable because an extreme wet season caused the 2019–2022 locust infestation, which destroyed large regions of crops. By early October 2021...
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The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) is an extinct species of grasshopper that ranged through the western half of the United States and some...
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season in December 2019, unseasonal rains caused the incursion to reach unanticipated and hazardous levels. The 2019–2022 locust infestation caused widespread...
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Effects of climate change on agriculture (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2022)
whiteflies: similarly, locust swarms could also cause more damage as the result. A notable example was the 2019–2022 locust infestation focused on East Africa...
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arrested. In May 2019, there was a car accident between Lafa-Ruug and Hamaas that killed 7 people. In June 2019, Locust infestation occurred in Lafa-Ruug...
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