成群的 沙漠蝗虫 are descending ravenously around the world. In the horn of Africa, they’re roving through croplands and flattening farms in a devastating barrage, 瑞安汤普森报道 欧洲新闻.专家表示，该事件对该地区的粮食安全构成了前所未有的威胁。
成群结队的吃掉了沿途的一切，摧毁了整片农田，种植园主只能惊恐和沮丧地看着。自今年年初以来，蝗虫群也出现在 印度, Yemen, and Argentina and they’re now threatening to spill over to Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil.
这种微小的生物繁殖迅速，一旦飞到空中，它们就更难控制了：成群的蝗虫每天可以移动 200 公里。联合国粮农组织高级蝗虫预报官基思·克雷斯曼告诉记者 欧洲新闻 that “extremely good weather conditions” have allowed the creatures to breed and multiply very rapidly.
Last month, Brazil’s agriculture declared a crop emergency in two southern states amid the possibility that a cloud of locusts could enter the country.