Locust attack in the Yemeni capital Sana'a
This is the story of two attacks: On July 27, pictures of the 'attack' on a pumpkin crop in Las Vegas reached the world.
It caused more trouble than anything and was mainly attracted to the glowing light of this desert city.
At the same time, civil war-torn country Yemen witnessed a pest invasion that is more worrisome and even less mentioned.
It was an invasion of grasshoppers, which has food crops and which can cause serious damage to those crops in more than 60 countries, especially Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
The number of such incidents will increase, and experts fear that insects may be more destructive and unpredictable due to climate change.
Hunger for a bunch of locusts
There is already evidence that temperature rise will have a direct impact on the digestion of insects.
FAO desert locusts soon become a snake and are harmful to crops
In 2018, American scientists published a research in the science journal, which shows that warm weather makes insects more active and they breed faster.
This makes them more hungry, and an adult toddler can eat the same amount of food a day.
Monitoring
Researchers estimate that increasing temperature per degree centigrade could increase global damage to wheat, rice and maize crops by 10 to 25 percent due to harvested pests.
This loss can result in moderate climatic areas where most of the grain is grown.
In 2018, the author of the research, Curtis Duchess writes, "In addition to areas near the equator, warmer temperatures will increase the rate of pest production." You will have more insects and they will eat more food. '
Getty Images An Israeli farmer lives in the grasslands in 2013
Although grasshoppers are not the only species of insects that consume crops, they are the only insects that national and international authorities oversee because of their ability to cause catastrophic effects.
Efforts in the last four decades have made them miserable, but in 2004, an outbreak of the outbreak, similar to the outbreak in Africa, caused an estimated $ 2.5 billion in damage to crops.
Food Security
Although it is estimated that the global proportion of damage to all insects is relatively low, researchers have estimated it to be only 0.2%, the impact of the crowd on a particular place is catastrophic. Can be proven.
Michael Leuk, one of the world's foremost experts on grasshoppers, told the BBC that "drought in the northern and western range of the desert in the future can create more favorable conditions for the breeding of locusts and its Negative effects can also occur. '
“This could have enormous consequences for many poor people in developing countries, including crops, pastures, and ultimately food and social security,” Liuk warned.
Getty Images A sketch depicting an attack of locusts in Syria in 1865
Devastating History
According to the UN World Food Program, the most destructive plague species are desert locusts, which have a potential to harm livelihoods by 10% of the world's population.
A small swarm of these locusts eats up to 35,000 people a day.
His favorite foods include cereal plants such as wheat, rice and corn.
As mentioned in the Qur'an and the Bible, this creature is the oldest enemy of humanity.
Ancient Greek historian Pliny the Elder said that the plague of locusts killed 800,000 people in the famine. These areas are now Libya, Algeria and Tunisia.
In 1958, a group of locusts in Ethiopia destroyed 167,000 tonnes of grain over an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, enough to feed one million people a year.
Getty Images An attack of locusts on crops
The milder areas will be more affected by these hungry pests because if these areas get too hot, digestion of these pests will slow down as this problem is already facing the equatorial regions.
Experts suspect that global warming has played a major role in 2016, when Argentina faced the largest locust attack in the past 60 years.
Hot and humid winters are blamed for this trend.
High and long flights
The United Nations World Food Program, which coordinates a special global monitoring network for desert grassland activities, warns that climate change could lead to more favorable migration and remoteness conditions. Are. An adult locust can fly up to 150 km a day.
The agency says, "Due to the increased heat in the future, it may reach the jatha regions sooner than in the past."
Getty Images Colombian player James Rodriguez celebrates with a toad on his arm during the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil
Warmer temperatures can help insects fly higher and cross natural barriers such as mountains and open up new routes for them to move, especially if the direction of the flight is in their direction. If so, she can take them farther.
Dior of the Global Locust Initiative at Arizona State University
This is the story of two attacks: On July 27, pictures of the 'attack' on a pumpkin crop in Las Vegas reached the world.
It caused more trouble than anything and was mainly attracted to the glowing light of this desert city.
At the same time, civil war-torn country Yemen witnessed a pest invasion that is more worrisome and even less mentioned.
It was an invasion of grasshoppers, which has food crops and which can cause serious damage to those crops in more than 60 countries, especially Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
The number of such incidents will increase, and experts fear that insects may be more destructive and unpredictable due to climate change.
Hunger for a bunch of locusts
There is already evidence that temperature rise will have a direct impact on the digestion of insects.
FAO desert locusts soon become a snake and are harmful to crops
In 2018, American scientists published a research in the science journal, which shows that warm weather makes insects more active and they breed faster.
This makes them more hungry, and an adult toddler can eat the same amount of food a day.
Monitoring
Researchers estimate that increasing temperature per degree centigrade could increase global damage to wheat, rice and maize crops by 10 to 25 percent due to harvested pests.
This loss can result in moderate climatic areas where most of the grain is grown.
In 2018, the author of the research, Curtis Duchess writes, "In addition to areas near the equator, warmer temperatures will increase the rate of pest production." You will have more insects and they will eat more food. '
Getty Images An Israeli farmer lives in the grasslands in 2013
Although grasshoppers are not the only species of insects that consume crops, they are the only insects that national and international authorities oversee because of their ability to cause catastrophic effects.
Efforts in the last four decades have made them miserable, but in 2004, an outbreak of the outbreak, similar to the outbreak in Africa, caused an estimated $ 2.5 billion in damage to crops.
Food Security
Although it is estimated that the global proportion of damage to all insects is relatively low, researchers have estimated it to be only 0.2%, the impact of the crowd on a particular place is catastrophic. Can be proven.
Michael Leuk, one of the world's foremost experts on grasshoppers, told the BBC that "drought in the northern and western range of the desert in the future can create more favorable conditions for the breeding of locusts and its Negative effects can also occur. '
“This could have enormous consequences for many poor people in developing countries, including crops, pastures, and ultimately food and social security,” Liuk warned.
Getty Images A sketch depicting an attack of locusts in Syria in 1865
Devastating History
According to the UN World Food Program, the most destructive plague species are desert locusts, which have a potential to harm livelihoods by 10% of the world's population.
A small swarm of these locusts eats up to 35,000 people a day.
His favorite foods include cereal plants such as wheat, rice and corn.
As mentioned in the Qur'an and the Bible, this creature is the oldest enemy of humanity.
Ancient Greek historian Pliny the Elder said that the plague of locusts killed 800,000 people in the famine. These areas are now Libya, Algeria and Tunisia.
In 1958, a group of locusts in Ethiopia destroyed 167,000 tonnes of grain over an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, enough to feed one million people a year.
Getty Images An attack of locusts on crops
The milder areas will be more affected by these hungry pests because if these areas get too hot, digestion of these pests will slow down as this problem is already facing the equatorial regions.
Experts suspect that global warming has played a major role in 2016, when Argentina faced the largest locust attack in the past 60 years.
Hot and humid winters are blamed for this trend.
High and long flights
The United Nations World Food Program, which coordinates a special global monitoring network for desert grassland activities, warns that climate change could lead to more favorable migration and remoteness conditions. Are. An adult locust can fly up to 150 km a day.
The agency says, "Due to the increased heat in the future, it may reach the jatha regions sooner than in the past."
Getty Images Colombian player James Rodriguez celebrates with a toad on his arm during the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil
Warmer temperatures can help insects fly higher and cross natural barriers such as mountains and open up new routes for them to move, especially if the direction of the flight is in their direction. If so, she can take them farther.
Dior of the Global Locust Initiative at Arizona State University
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