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Locusts are a collection of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase.
Locusts are ravenous eaters. An adult desert locust that weighs about 2 grams (a fraction of an ounce) can consume roughly its own weight daily. And they're not picky at all. According to the FAO, a swarm of just 1 square kilometer — again, about a third of a square mile — can consume as much food as would be eaten by 35,000 people (or six elephants) in a single day.

-locust can travel 150 km a day and its impossible to kill them because they are such powerful flyers
-The possible incoming of the locusts in Nepal has drawn the attention of many including the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. Plant Quarantine and Pesticide Management Centre chief Sahadev Humagain says the locusts are a real threat to any agricultural area as they eats away everything, leaving the land barren.
-No one can pinpoint what exactly caused the return of locusts, but experts say the heavy rain experienced latelyprovided perfect humid conditions for the pests to breed and form swarms to migrate to other far off places.
Experts further reinforce their argument saying global warming facilitated the locust breeding. They explain that eggs of insects hatch more successfully in warmer and moister conditions
-Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Ghanshyam Bhusal said he has come to know that a certain type of music can kill famine causing locusts
--Dr Herbert Talwana, an entomologist at Makerere University College of Agriculture, says locusts are a group of insects known for stridualtion -ability to make and detect sounds.
“Any other noise other than their “music” – which is an important part of the courting and mating process, will disrupt them and thus flee,” says Talwana
Simple automated machine. Farmers who are battling desert locusts in Pakistan have fabricated a simple automated machine that makes noise to scare away locusts from their gardens. The machine is fabricated locally and is powered by solar. The machine has a metallic material that can be banged to produce high pitched noise, a hammer for banging and solar panel to power the system.
The administration of Madhya Pradesh's Panna district used sirens of police vehicles to drive away desert locusts
People in Rajasthan banged utensils to scare away the swarm of desert locusts
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"This saved loss of agricultural crops here. The way to prevent them from damaging crops is to create loud noises or to spray insecticides," the Agriculture Officer said.