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Early warning tool may help control huge locust swarms
Until now, predicting and controlling locust swarms has been "hit and miss," according ... the response to a massive upsurge over 2019–2021, which extended from Kenya to India and put huge ...
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New early warning tool to help control devastating locust swarms
Until now, predicting and controlling locust swarms has been ‘hit and miss ... the response to a massive upsurge from 2019 to 2021, which extended from Kenya to India and put a huge strain ...
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Watch the Navy's LOCUST launcher fire a swarm of drones
The Navy's new LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology) launchers fire a swarm of drones that can jam enemy communications, and waste enemy resources by drawing fire. The launchers are capable of ...
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AP Exclusive: Locusts swarm East Africa as a new wave forms in the Somali desert
It was the case of one good story leading to another. After its shocking report Jan. 25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking ...
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Swarms of locusts have destroyed 170,000 acres of crops in East Africa — and local farmers are nearly helpless to stop it
A swarm can eat enough food to feed 34 million people in just one day. And within a year, the locusts destroyed over 170,000 acres of land in Somalia and Ethiopia — where people rely on crops ...
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Swarms of locusts destroy crops in West Pokot County
[Christopher Kipsang, Standard] A new wave of locust swarms is spreading in West Pokot County which could precipitate a food crisis. The pests have ravaged acres of maize and beans in Pokot North ...