How to rid East Africa of locusts? Serve them in a kebab or drive them to cannibalism

NAIROBI, - Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour East Africa’s crops, scientists in a Nairobi lab are experimenting with novel ways to kill them.

Swarms are the worst for three generations, encouraged by unseasonably wet weather and dispersed by a record number of cyclones. The destructive pests could cost East Africa and Yemen $8.5 billion this year, the World Bank has said. So scientists at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology are experimenting with biopesticides and the use of locusts as human and animal food as they look for environmentally-friendly extermination methods.

Now researchers are pouring through 500 other fungi and microbes in their bio bank in the hope of discovering another locust poison.Before locusts can fly they have a certain chemistry and therefore a unique smell that allows them to remain in a group, he said. That smell changes as locusts mature.“They get disoriented, the group breaks into pieces, they cannibalize each other and they become even more susceptible to biopesticides,” he said.

Hell yeah!

Exactly, bumper harvest

China How did the army of ducks do?

Nasty.

eat up! there is plenty to go around.

Anyone feeling adventurous? Try Plazita Salt and Lemon grasshoppers from Oaxaca Mexico or Entomo Farms Whole Roasted Crickets. Both are sold on Amazon and I avidly eat both.

These are a signs of ending of times..Apocalypse has spoken and is here whether you like it of not....

Think I’ll stick to egg bacon and chips... Can’t stand foreign muck 😂

'Server them in a kebab or drive them to cannibalism'. brandnewsentences

fkn nasty

you don't need new ways..just quit banning the pesticides that keep them under control

🤢🤮 FUCKABUNCHAEATIN'BUGS!!!

Send a message to Clintons that the locust have collective memory of all their schemes for last 40 years.....

Tell the Chinese it’s good for erections

They're eating all food crops. Can they not be harvested and made palatable to complete the circle while finding a way to stop them.

Whatever you do, don't poison them if you plan on ever eating them. They will cannibalize themselves before they can fly.

Wakanda lab looks fantastic my friends 🙏🏾

Jesus Christ

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