About Desert Locusts
Channel: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 2021-03-31

An introduction to Desert Locusts – which live in the deserts of Africa, the Middle East and South West Asia. Desert Locusts form giant swarms – 1 square kilometre can contain up to 80 million locusts and eat the same amount of food in a day as 35,000 people. This is why the Desert Locust is the world’s most dangerous migratory pest.

Read more about FAO’s work to contain Desert Locust upsurges to protect food security and rural livelihoods: http://www.fao.org/locusts/en/ 

This animation is a joint copyright between Scientific Animations Without Borders [Purdue University Board of Trustees] and FAO (2021)


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