Locusts now in Samburu/Meru

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Elder Lister
The government, through The ministry of agriculture has announced that the dreaded swarm of desert locusts has made its way to Samburu county, bringing the number of affected counties to 6.
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Jana nimetoka side za wajir...

And as I was settling kwa flight hapo dabaciti from burahache..


Ta ta ta ta ta ta ...

Wacha tu




... like heavy rain drops hitting the glass canopy ..

The whole windscreen became a mess of egg yolky splattered locust bodies in seconds before we could hurriedly climb higher..

Looking down ..
It was like a sea of them flying south..

Crazy..

Zingine zikaingilia through air vents na kumess ndege ndani

- Stolen
 
shocks said:
Do they breed as they move or do all these come from one location?
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After the final ecdysis, the adult locusts take to the wing and after a few days of short flights set off on extensive migrations, settling at night and in the middle of the day when it is hottest. A medium-sized swarm may contain a thousand million locusts and cover an area of 20 square kilometres. Such a swarm will consume some 3000 tonnes of vegetation per day; and so if a swarm lands on agricultural crops, the locusts will strip them of every vestige of leaf and edible stem.
The swarms may travel many hundreds of kilometres from their place of origin, e.g. from Africa to India, and the females will lay eggs during their journey, so leaving the nucleus of successive swarms within a few weeks.
 
DESERT LOCUSTS have spread to Igembe North in Meru; aircraft and chemicals dispatched for spraying, says Agriculture executive Carol Mutiga.
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Kwanza tucheze bbi, kieleweke na tangatanga. If not well controlled and it spills to more counties, the cost of food will definitely skyrocket even after waiting for a fairly good harvest after a long time
 
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