The grasshopper may bother you

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  "The level of disaster for the eighth swarm of locusts in the Bible."




The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization described a group of "desert locusts" that devastated East Africa as "unprecedented to this day." The attack on desert grasshoppers has been linked to food security and a "climate crisis" and is drawing international attention. This clearly shows how climate change actually threatens the food security of mankind.

The reason why I am afraid of desert grasshoppers as big as adult male fingers is because of their great appetite. The omnivorous desert grasshoppers eat up not only rice but also oats, corn, and bananas. According to the FAO, as a 1-kilometer-wide group of desert locusts passes, the crops eaten are about equal to a day's worth of food for 35,000 people. About 10 million people are suffering from a severe food crisis in Africa. A swarm of locusts can fly up to 200 kilometers a day in the wind. It is simply a 'food invasion' by a swarm of locusts.

The Agriculture Department in Somalia declared a state of emergency last month, saying that locusts are eating up huge amounts of crops and feed. The locusts that swallowed the East African region are moving fast, threatening India, Pakistan and now China. Ugh! I heard that you sometimes show up at our school. The fertility rate is scary, too. Female locusts usually lay 300 eggs, and a large number of hatches have begun. The FAO also predicted that if such a swarm of locusts continues until June, the number could increase to 500 times the current size.

The affected areas are also a problem. The FAO expressed concern that desert locusts pose a serious food security threat across East Africa, which is already vulnerable to food shortages. African countries account for 34 countries, the largest number of countries in need of outside food aid, according to a report released by the FAO on Wednesday.

Why did the locusts show up in East Africa, where they had been suffering from food shortages before? Experts point out that it could be the same cause of Australian wildfires that have surprised the world recently. It is a matter of climate change. From October to December last year, the northeastern region of Africa received as much as 400 percent more heavy rain than usual. In other words, desert grasshoppers who lay their eggs in wet places have been provided with a golden breeding environment. The cause is rising water temperatures in the western Indian Ocean.

Unlike Africa, where precipitation has soared, the eastern Indian Ocean, where water temperatures have dropped, has developed an abnormally high temperature and drought, resulting in a huge forest fire in Australia. Scientists believe that recent climate change is becoming more serious and more frequent. Experts say that Australia's summer wildfires (from December to February) are also unusually large and that the period has been prolonged. The reason is that the earth's temperature rise is predominant.

Now that the coronavirus has blanketed the Earth, on the other side of the planet, insect problems are also serious, along with the plague catastrophe.



We will find how to protect the Earth and change the environmental pollution

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