Why Aren't There Locust Plagues Anymore?
Why Aren't There Locust Plagues Anymore?
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can I get the one sentence summary it would take to answer the question posed by this 33 minute video
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The video is very interesting and has way more information than just answering the title question. That said, we don't actually know for sure but probably something to do with agriculture interrupting the locust's reproduction cycle.
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Yeah sorry I didn't mean to dunk on the video that hard. I think my comment was a little overly harsh sounding, especially since I actually love really long videos, I guess this one just didn't speak to me.
But thank you for summarizing it for me anyway!
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This answer makes a ton of sense to me, given how we've completely agriformed a huge unbroken swath of the North American continent.
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didnt they huge locust swarms in the horn of africa in 2020
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Yes, also in India and parts of south America. It wasn't as bad as a lot of "plagues" in the past. You used to have swarms so large it would block out the sun for literal days as it passed over an area.
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This video is specifically about the North American Locust, which is extinct since the early 20th century
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Too expensive. Only Highcost Plagues now.
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shaking my smdh head You can't even descend on a fertile plain devouring all in sight like some sort of biblical curse anymore, because of woke
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Can all grasshopper species become locusts or is just certain grasshopper subgroups?
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There are thousands of species of grasshopper but I think only a few dozen are known to have locust phases.
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is it pesticides?
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No, locust plagues in American stopped before the widespread use of pesticides.
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Clearly you don't live near a cicada brood
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Pulse lasers and targeting computers meant they the locusts 8/12 movement profile was no longer fast enough to protect it...
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