Toward the end of 2019, East Africa was met with unusually wet weather. This contributed to the massive outbreak of locusts, pests that destroy crops and can be a serious threat to food security in the region. Currently, hundreds of millions of desert locusts swarm in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. The number is one of the biggest numbers seen in over 25 years.
See the photos over at The Atlantic.
(Image Credit: Ben Curtis/ AP)
Grasshoppers---right?
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Pardon me, but aren't locusts edible? As in: A source of necessary proteins and some minerals? Don't some societies gather them and store them for making into, well, food? So when they appear in mass quantities, are we stressing about loss of food, when it's just another form?
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i bless the rains
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