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The wingless (hopper) stage of the brown locust has reached adulthood. This is a sight that farmers fear.
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Afrikaans: Volwasse, gevleuelde sprinkane kan en sal plunder, afmaai en die veld in Suid-Afrika vernietig. UIT DIE DAILY MAVERICK: Andrea Campher, Agri SA se risiko- en rampbestuurder, het gesê dit is een van die grootste sprinkaan-uitbrake wat hulle in etlike jare gesien het. “Die uitbrake kom in die Noord-Kaap, Wes-Kaap en Oos-Kaap voor, basies in die Karoo-gordel. Met die hoë tot bo-normale reënval wat ons nou gesien het, vind sprinkaan- of plaagsiekte-uitbrake tipies plaas. Dis ’n normale verskynsel dat sprinkane tydens hoë-reënvalseisoene uitbreek, veral in droë en semi-droë gebiede soos die Karoo,” het sy gesê. Campher het gesê daar was massiewe sprinkaan-uitbrake in die Noord- en Wes-Kaap. “Hulle skat dat sommige van hierdie swerms 5 km by 20 km in omvang bereik. Sommige sê daar is swerms wat meer as 4 000 hektaar bedek.
Bron: Tembile Sgqolana, Daily Maverick, 15 Maart 2022. TRAIL OF DEVASTATION. SA farmers battle to control locust swarms of biblical proportions. English: Winged, adult locusts can (and do) maraud, ransack, destroy the fields in South Africa.
FROM THE DAILY MAVERICK: Andrea Campher, Agri SA’s risk and disaster manager, said it was one of the biggest locust outbreaks that they had seen in many years. “The outbreaks are occurring in the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape, basically in the Karoo belt. With the high or above normal rainfall we have seen now, locusts or pest disease outbreaks normally occur. It’s a normal phenomenon that locusts break out during high rainfall seasons, especially in dry and semi-arid areas such as the Karoo,” she said. Campher said there had been massive locust outbreaks in the Northern Cape and Western Cape. “They are estimating that some of these swarms are reaching 5 km by 20 km in diameter. Some say there are swarms that are bigger than 4,000 hectares in diameter. Source: Tembile Sgqolana, Daily Maverick, 15 March 2022. TRAIL OF DEVASTATION. SA farmers battle to control locust swarms of biblical proportions.
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