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"The swarms increase in size twentyfold with each successive generation and could reach India by June." India? Am I missing something or is this is an error i

• ropiwqefjnpoa 7y ago
  At 150km a day, seems possible.
• iamalocust 7y ago
  No this is not an error. The desert locusts Wikipedia says the locusts can fly 100km a day. June is four months away so that's plenty of time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_locust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_locust
• onetimemanytime 7y ago
  apparently they can move 90 MILES a day. I guess if they have food and no predators they can move and take over.
  • Balero 7y ago
    Having predators isn't an issue. There will be plenty, just there are so many locusts. So many that even after all the predators are filled to bursting, there won't be a noticeable drop in the numbers.
    • the8472 7y ago
      Fungi might be able to replicate fast enough.
• sp332 7y ago
  At 150 kilometers per day, they could cover the 3,500 km between Egypt and India in 20 days. Of course they're not covering that much distance every day, but they can jump between distant sources of food very quickly, so smaller gaps between crops or across deserts won't stop them.
• brianprovost 7y ago
  Looks like they're currently in Ethiopia (NE Africa) so India seems correct. Looks like they rarely fly over water though: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626356/
• baybal2 7y ago
  There was a horrendous locust swarms few months ago in Punjab already before the winter. The same megaswarm was in Saudi Arabia a year ago. It seems that the swarm has since split, with one swarm going back to Africa
  • celim307 7y ago
    Getting real 40k Tyranid vibes
• wozer 7y ago
  Or maybe they decide to go to Europe?