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What are WA and Queensland like for locusts?

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Quote from BBC website


Plague in east and west

The infestation coincides with the worst plague of locusts in 10 years in western Australia, which is currently ravaging the state's wheat belt.

"It's most unusual for us to have both sides of the continent having major outbreaks at the same time," said Plague Locust Commission director Graeme Hamilton, quoted by the AFP news agency.

By November the number of locusts could reach 1,000 billion, and the commission estimates that damage to crops and the wine industry in the eastern states could total $120m.

A member of the grasshopper family, locusts cluster together when young and form swarms of up to 15,000 per square metre, often travelling at night.

FremantleRaider

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"Locusts rebranded as 'sky prawns' "

Talk about putting positive spin on the situation!!!

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We have just had the same problem in Cyprus, the high temps attracted them, sorted now that the temp has gone down and lots of crop spraying.

Di

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Trouble is ... they lay there eggs underground where crop spraying cannot harm them and they incubate for ages before they hatch and then it starts again... ahhh I remember the last one. eeewwww :scared:

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was just going to say, they are edible arent they??

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Sounds about right, 10 years ago I was 12, I remember that time! (wasn't where we live, but was big news! Must've been very big, because I have a bad memory :D )

Where we lived(south west) we had the fruit moth problem(or something moth, can't remember :rolleyes: the name..)