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Sunday, September 26, 2010 6:47:37 AM
Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 years
Ideal breeding conditions for grasshoppersare expected to cost farmers billions
By Paul Rodgers
Sunday, 26 September 2010
It's a bug's life: an Australian plague locust
* Photos enlarge
Australia's Darling river is running with water again after a drought in the middle of the decade reduced it to a trickle. But the rains feeding the continent's fourth-longest river are not the undiluted good news you might expect. For the cloudbursts also create ideal conditions for an unwelcome pest – the Australian plague locust.
full http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/australia-faces-worst-plague-of-locusts-in-75-years-2089919.html
Ideal breeding conditions for grasshoppersare expected to cost farmers billions
By Paul Rodgers
Sunday, 26 September 2010
It's a bug's life: an Australian plague locust
* Photos enlarge
Australia's Darling river is running with water again after a drought in the middle of the decade reduced it to a trickle. But the rains feeding the continent's fourth-longest river are not the undiluted good news you might expect. For the cloudbursts also create ideal conditions for an unwelcome pest – the Australian plague locust.
full http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/australia-faces-worst-plague-of-locusts-in-75-years-2089919.html
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