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Recent rain and warmer temperatures in Argentina has given ideal breeding ground for locust.
Argentina Combats Worst Locust Plague in 60 Years
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/111834/20160127/argentina-combats-worst-locust-plague-60-years.htm
"It's the worst explosion in the last 60 years," said Senasa's chief of vegetative protection Diego Quiroga to the Times. "It's impossible to eradicate; the plague has already established itself. We're just acting to make sure it's the smallest it can be and does the least damage possible."
Since June of 2015, locust swarms have spread over a region roughly the size of Delaware. Last fall, farmers reported seeing insect clouds four miles long and two miles high, according to a representative from the Rural Confederations of Argentina.
The plague can be blamed on the planet's altering climate. Warmer and wetter seasons in Argentina have resulted in ideal breeding conditions for the insects.
It only takes ten days for a larvae to mature and take flight, and fumigators are finding it impossible to contain the ever-growing plague.
Climate change has increased the threat of locust plagues worldwide. The Food and Agriculture Organization issued a warning in November that rain conditions could generate destructive swarms in northwest Africa and Yemen.
"There is clearly an impact in our country, too. We are definitely being affected," said Quiroga to the Times.
Also here:
http://www.ibtimes.com/argentina-locust-plague-armageddon-end-days-or-climate-change-disaster-2280092
Desert Locust situation update 4 January 2016
http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/index.html
Control operations against hopper and adult groups that formed as a result of an outbreak in western Mauritania declined in late December. Nevertheless, infestations and breeding have spread further north in the country as well as to adjacent areas of Western Sahara where limited control was undertaken. There remains a risk of further breeding that could cause locust numbers to increase and more groups and perhaps a few small hopper bands to form.
Although small-scale breeding occurred in northern Mali (Timetrine area) and in northern Niger (Tamesna) where a few small groups formed in December, only low numbers of adults are likely to persist in both areas during the coming months.
The situation remains calm in the winter breeding areas along both sides of the Red Sea. So far, only low numbers of solitarious adults have been reported on the coast of Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Limited breeding occurred in Yemen. Ecological conditions are favourable in northeast Sudan and on the northwest coast of Somalia where small-scale breeding is expected in the coming months.
The situation remains calm in southwest Asia.
Argentina Combats Worst Locust Plague in 60 Years
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/111834/20160127/argentina-combats-worst-locust-plague-60-years.htm
"It's the worst explosion in the last 60 years," said Senasa's chief of vegetative protection Diego Quiroga to the Times. "It's impossible to eradicate; the plague has already established itself. We're just acting to make sure it's the smallest it can be and does the least damage possible."
Since June of 2015, locust swarms have spread over a region roughly the size of Delaware. Last fall, farmers reported seeing insect clouds four miles long and two miles high, according to a representative from the Rural Confederations of Argentina.
The plague can be blamed on the planet's altering climate. Warmer and wetter seasons in Argentina have resulted in ideal breeding conditions for the insects.
It only takes ten days for a larvae to mature and take flight, and fumigators are finding it impossible to contain the ever-growing plague.
Climate change has increased the threat of locust plagues worldwide. The Food and Agriculture Organization issued a warning in November that rain conditions could generate destructive swarms in northwest Africa and Yemen.
"There is clearly an impact in our country, too. We are definitely being affected," said Quiroga to the Times.
Also here:
http://www.ibtimes.com/argentina-locust-plague-armageddon-end-days-or-climate-change-disaster-2280092
Desert Locust situation update 4 January 2016
http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/index.html
Control operations against hopper and adult groups that formed as a result of an outbreak in western Mauritania declined in late December. Nevertheless, infestations and breeding have spread further north in the country as well as to adjacent areas of Western Sahara where limited control was undertaken. There remains a risk of further breeding that could cause locust numbers to increase and more groups and perhaps a few small hopper bands to form.
Although small-scale breeding occurred in northern Mali (Timetrine area) and in northern Niger (Tamesna) where a few small groups formed in December, only low numbers of adults are likely to persist in both areas during the coming months.
The situation remains calm in the winter breeding areas along both sides of the Red Sea. So far, only low numbers of solitarious adults have been reported on the coast of Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Limited breeding occurred in Yemen. Ecological conditions are favourable in northeast Sudan and on the northwest coast of Somalia where small-scale breeding is expected in the coming months.
The situation remains calm in southwest Asia.
