A plague of lobsters, a species that causes damage in agricultural activity and can consume food for 35,000 people, crossed on Friday of last week the ro Paran and came to the province of Currents near the limit with Between Ros according to the representation of the UN Agency for Food and Agriculture in the country.
It’s about the species “Desert locusts” that they can move up to 150 kilometers in a day and that, although it is a plague rural, it becomes urban reaching towns and cities.
Anyway, it is a insect it does not affect the Health of people or animals but “can directly impact agricultural activity and livestock activity indirectly, feeding on forage resources and also causing damage to native vegetation,” according to the publication “Noticias de la UN “.
This sleeve of lobsters entered last May 21 from Paraguay towards the province of Formosa, where it was definitely installed seven days later.
The plague I started from the Formosan Department of Pilags, in the east of Formosa, and from there continued advancing towards the provinces of Chaco and Santa Fe, driven by the wind coming from the north. Last Tuesday they were sighted in the region of Santa Fe, 250 kilometers from the border with Brazil.
Fernando Rati, FAO expert in Argentina said that the best way to combat the plague it’s with fumigacin area and doing live monitoring.
Regarding this wave of lobsters that can reach Brazil In the coming days and hours, the most important prevention method at the moment is a plan to monitor how they move in real time together with the authorities of Argentina and Uruguay.
FAO considers desert locust “the most destructive migratory plague in the world”. A cloud of one square kilometer of these insects can consume the same amount of food as 35,000 people.
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