The entire 1,000-kilometre front line has been under siege by the pests as they are lured by the stench of dead bodies and the limited warmth that the bunkers provide.
A plague of mice is the latest threat to homes and farms in rural New South Wales, and there’s very little that can be done to stop the numbers from growing.
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.
For more than 500 years, scientists and historians have been baffled by the cause of a plague that wiped out a civilisation. They might have made a massive breakthrough.
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 […]