Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, posted on social media that the locusts have targeted a city in the Primorsko-Akhtarsk district where military planes take off daily to bomb Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
“And now this damned city is under attack by the militant Ukrainian locust. This is an invasion that they cannot do anything about. Nature itself is taking revenge for what they did to Mariupol,” he said on Telegram.
To protect whatever is left to feed the livestock, Yakutia farmers are pouring chemicals into their fields.
“The locusts have destroyed more than 80 percent of the hay. Here we will no longer be able to stock up on hay for the winter,” stated the mayor of Syulya, a rural Russian district.
As the state of emergency is currently in effect, more than 350 hectares of hayfields have been treated with the chemical to control insects as per Pavel Samsonov, chief agronomist of the Department of Agriculture at Nyurba District.
In Krasnodar alone, the insects already occupied 2,500 hectares (6,177.63 acres), nearly the same size as 3,500 football fields. These locusts can cover a distance of several hundred kilometers a day.
Locusts are considered the most destructive migratory pest because they are highly mobile and can form swarms containing millions, leading to devastating impacts on crops, pasture and fodder.
From 2019 until 2021, the pests have swarmed farms in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, India, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
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