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As Big as Paris & Eating Capacity Similar to Half of France, Early Arrival of Locust Swarms Makes India Tremble

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To feed and to breed is life. Rest is civilisation. Desert locusts are feeding and breeding in agricultural fields, the basis of human civilisation. At least five states in India are currently facing the grave threat of wide-scale crop destruction due to an unusual locust attack.

Desert locusts are grasshoppers. But they differ from regular grasshoppers in being short-horned and highly migratory in nature. Their life span is just 90 days.

Each flock of desert locusts is called a swarm. But the locusts have not reached adulthood and are in the nymphal stage of life, the group is called band. Around 80 lakh locusts can be in a swarm. They stay together, they feed together and they breed together.