Africa: then came the locusts.Africa: Then came the locusts After being plagued by a 20-year parching parch v. parched, parch·ing, parch·es v.tr. 1. To make extremely dry, especially by exposure to heat: The midsummer sun parched the earth. drought(SN:5/4/85,p.282), Africa got some temporary relief this year. But the rains that came also made conditions ripe for a return of the Senegalese grasshopper grasshopper, name applied to almost 9,000 different species of singing, jumping insects in two families of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers are long, slender, winged insects with powerful hind legs and strong mandibles, or mouthparts, adapted for chewing. ; by March its swarms were reaching plague proportions. With help from the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization, the grasshoppers Grasshoppers may refer to one of the following:
locust, in botany, any species of the genus Robinia, deciduous trees or shrubs of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) native to the United States and Mexico. pests are swarming at once, attacking crops down the entire length of the continent. |
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