For those of us that grew up in Sunday school, we learned all about the ten plagues and how they affected whole regions of people. One of those plagues was that swarms of locusts came and ate all the livestock and plants. Well, that didn't only happen way back then, but also in February of this year. Earlier this year, swarms the size of Manhattan were making their way through Somalia and Ethiopia eating anything they can in their way. It is estimated that a swarm of this size could eat the same amount of food as everyone in New York and California combined. That is a lot of food, and in countries that food is already hard to get, this was bad news.
According to Save The Children, an estimated 192 billion insects were spotted in Northeast Kenya. Because of the magnitude of this swarm, you can't just take a fly swatter and kill them all off. The only viable way to get the job done is to spray pesticide on them from the air, and quickly. While this was all happening, the experts knew exactly what needed to be done, but because of a lack of resources and other reasons, they could not spray right away. If they waited too long, then they would start to breed and create more locust. With how the situation already is, it might have prevented farmers from planting when they needed to because the locust would have just eaten what they just planted.
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/world-current-events/world-2-swarms-of-locusts-spread-across-east-africa/
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