Last year, incredible footage did the rounds showing farmland coming under siege from “a seemingly unending mass of locusts darkening the sky”. Unfortunately, the situation has worsened.
Massive swarms of brown locusts have been sweeping through farming communities, decimating crops and grassland as they go.
Swarms of locusts have invaded three provinces in South Africa, with farmers fighting to save their crops.
Swarms of locusts more than three times the size of New York City (an estimated 192 billion insects) are causing havoc in Kenya.
There are less than six months until the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Russia, and the football world is understandably excited. Here’s one problem they didn’t foresee.
Okay, so we probably went for the low hanging fruit on that headline. Locust plagues have swarmed Egypt, southern Israel and Gaza. The plague has struck three weeks before the Jewish Passover holiday that recounts the deadly plagues of Exodus – one of which is a plague of locusts, according to scripture. Farmers in the affected […]