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2013-02-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Swarms of locusts spotted in Red Sea Governorate

Good lord -- they sure are getting through the Ten Plagues in jig time!

[Egypt Independent] Teams set up to monitor locusts spotted swarms of them in Hamata, Baranis and Sheikh al-Shazly in the southern Red Sea Governorate, up to Ras Gharib further north.

Control teams in these areas and in Gouna began spraying insecticides to fight the locusts.

In early January, high-density groups of mature adult locusts continued to lay eggs in the Abraaq area in the Red Sea Hills, west of Berenice.

"If additional rains fall and conditions remain favorable, a second generation of breeding could occur," the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in its January bulletin.

But the FAO added a 17 February update on its website that despite "substantial" ground control operations in Egypt among other countries, "more swarms are expected to form in northeast Sudan and southeast Egypt in the coming weeks."

The locust swarms could pose a threat to winter crops. According to the FAO's website, an adult desert locust can "consume roughly its own weight in fresh food per day," or about 2 grams.

"A very small part of an average swarm" -- about 1 ton of locusts -- "eats the same amount of food in one day as about 10 elephants or 25 camels or 2,500 people," the website reads.

Posted by Fred 2013-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Morsi/Mursi-but-not-the-Muersey Egypt can't find one Biblical Joseph to prophecy + effec organize the country???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-02-25 02:00|| 2013-02-25 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Banded locusts must be returned to the Israeli Ministry of Health field trials laboratory in Rosh Pina.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-02-25 04:00|| 2013-02-25 04:00|| Front Page Top

#3 They should NEVER have opened the Book of the Dead. They should never have read those passages out loud. I TOLD them The Thing will return. But they wouldn't listen!!!

Posted by Raider 2013-02-25 09:48|| 2013-02-25 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 17-year breeding cycle, folks.

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-02-25 10:24|| 2013-02-25 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Egypt's ag sector isn't growing as much as usual so whatever damage the locusts do won't be as great

of course because they can't afford imports of wheat, the starvation will be worse

Posted by lord garth 2013-02-25 10:32|| 2013-02-25 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Eat the Locusts, problem solved.

(Yes they're edible, not tasty, but edible)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-02-25 16:29|| 2013-02-25 16:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I've read somewhere they're not as bad when taken with honey.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-02-25 17:32|| 2013-02-25 17:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Frogs, I want frogs....and rivers of blood, can't have too much blood over there.........AND Zombies!!

Posted by Alanc 2013-02-25 19:47|| 2013-02-25 19:47|| Front Page Top

#9 just like Cicadas - there'll be some pinhead fryin em up in oil, saying: "tastes kinda nutty!"

Posted by Frank G 2013-02-25 20:01|| 2013-02-25 20:01|| Front Page Top

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