The locusts in Africa are very large, with a body length of seven or eight centimeters alone, and most of them are half the length of a palm.

They rained down on the thick skins of the animals, and even made a slightly dull sound.

Just listening to the continuous sound made the audience in front of the screen feel a little depressed.

It is hard to imagine what kind of terrible scene Bi Fang's mouth really resembles a serious locust plague like a black cloud.

Bi Fang gently lifted the corner of the fur.

Between the skin and the ground, there is morning light penetrating, and the light and darkness are intertwined, revealing the ferocious corner of the outside world.

At this time, the audience realized that it was just one or two locusts, which had already become a piece at this time.

Outside the skin, there were brown locusts the size of palms, densely packed, and a few tried to drill into the cracks, but were knocked away by Bi Fang's fingers.

Just the first sight can give you goosebumps.

If I still felt a little depressed just now, now I can't breathe at all.

Too dense, too big, too numb.

The terrible thing about locust plagues is that they are overwhelming.

The visual impact is comparable to a post-apocalyptic blockbuster.

And everywhere he went, there was really no grass.

[I can't do it, I can't do it, I'm afraid of committing it]

[Ask for a pair of clean eyes]

[It's disgusting]

[This is too big, isn't it?]

[Can't you really eat people?]

Harley's body was completely curled up, and every time a locust landed on the skin, causing a slight tremble, it had to shake and lean against Bi Fang beside him, making the space under the skin even more crowded.

As a cheetah, it saw such a terrifying scene for the first time in its own leopard life, and its eyes widened and flashed with a black light.

Bi Fang grabbed the cheetah's head with his big hand, pressed it to the ground, and then couldn't help but sneeze.

This guy kept leaning in here, and the long hairs on his ears were poking into his nostrils, and it was really uncomfortable.

"After the locust plague is formed, it must be treated, in the past, the method of controlling the locust plague was relatively stupid, the locusts laid their eggs in the soil, so they cultivated the land, and the nymphs who could not fly gathered on the ground, so they set fire, and then there were chemical pesticides, and there were airplanes, so they used airplanes to sprinkle pesticides in the sky."

"This method is still commonly used today, but the cost is very high, and the locust plague has been severe in recent years, which may have something to do with the lack of aircraft in Kenya."

"Coupled with the fact that the global climate has been getting warmer in the past two years, and there was an El Niño event last year, the locust population here has skyrocketed."

Bi Fang sorted out some weather phenomena in the past two years.

El Niño is the Spanish word for Holy Child, specifically referring to the phenomenon of persistently unusually warm waters that occur in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Oceans.

Last year's El Niño event lasted until the end of the year.

Africa is already arid, locusts lay eggs in large quantities, and under the conditions of warming and heavy precipitation, the vegetation grows wildly, providing perfect conditions for the growth of nymphs.

Locusts need a dry environment to lay eggs, but after they lay their eggs, they secrete a gelatinous substance, which makes the eggs very waterproof and does not reduce hatching during the rainy season.

Because of this, under normal circumstances, locust plagues are likely to occur after a major drought and then heavy rainfall before the locusts hatch.

There are not enough means to deal with it, and the more locusts there are, the more eggs are laid, and the more eggs are laid, the more locusts there are, and it snowballs like a complete stubborn disease.

The only thing that can restrain them is that the vegetation is greatly reduced, and the locusts starve to death due to insufficient food.

"As I said earlier, desert locusts spread halfway around the world."

"In fact, if we hadn't had the Himalayas, which blocked most of the eastward swarms, and the northeasterly winds that prevailed in Southeast Asia in winter, and the desert locusts that depend on the Indian Ocean monsoon, we would have been threatened by them."

In winter, the monsoon moves north from the east coast of India, but then it turns around and blows back, and the locusts are carried back.

And in the summer, the wind stops blowing and blows down, and the locusts can't get over.

"The African locusts came to our country, and it was the double blockage of the headwind and the mountains, so they survived."

There was a rare hint of happiness in Bi Fang's tone.

[It's terrible]

[It's really blessed]

【Amazing】

[Anyway, can you eat locusts, so many, don't worry about food, right? ] 】

[Let you see what a real foodie is]

[Indeed, raising more chickens and ducks should also have a certain effect]

[Silly hat, locusts are poisonous after swarms, I don't know this? 】

[Who said you can't eat if it's poisonous?] Do you understand? 】

【？？？ 】

"Ahem, don't be so aggressive."

Netizens can really quarrel at any time, Bi Fang slandered in his heart, and explained quietly: "In fact, both sides are right, the locusts in the locust plague can be eaten or not." ”

"I just said that chickens and ducks do have a certain use, but most of the locusts that chickens and ducks eat are in the nymph stage, and they prefer to eat dispersed locusts.

"This involves a self-protection mechanism for locusts, and locusts themselves know that after becoming gregarious, it will be convenient for natural predators to prey, so they will release the smell signal phenylacetonitrile, and natural enemies will not want to eat them when they smell it."

"Under the protection of phenylacetonitrile, if natural predators continue to attack locusts, phenylacetonitrile will be converted to hydrogen cyanide."

"Hydrogen cyanide, everyone should know that this thing is poisonous, and the toxicity is not small."

[Isn't that why people can't eat it?] 】

"Don't worry, let me say the conclusion first, chickens and ducks really can't be eaten, but people can eat them, which is based on facts."

"When the locust plague was already fierce, the local residents ate locusts and ate them very happily, and a large number of gauze nets could be caught and fried directly in the oil pan until golden brown, and the children next door coughed cough, and this was the case."

"It's not that we're immune to cyanide, it's not a matter of toxicity and dose, just one locust in a high aggregation area can cause mild poisoning."

"The fundamental reason is that hydrocyanic acid at high temperatures will volatilize and burn, and the speed is very fast, animals will not eat cooked food, people can, and they can be removed by cooking techniques.

"So even if you want to eat locusts, it's best to catch locusts that haven't changed color yet, after all, the color characteristics are still easy to distinguish, and they should be fried and roasted thoroughly to minimize the hydrocyanic acid content."

"Besides, you can't finish eating, relying on food is a drop in the bucket."

"I talked about the density of locusts before, after the locust swarm becomes a disaster, there can be 3 million locusts per acre of land, and the total weight reaches six tons, which is 12,000 catties per mu, and rice does not have a yield of 1,000 catties per mu now! With a tenfold gap, how can a person finish eating? ”

Most of the human beings live in a fixed place, and the locusts are completely free to move around.

After a few days of catching locusts, all the crops were gone, and the locusts flew away quickly.

That's the end result.

Eating locusts can only solve the short-term food crisis.

The audience all sighed when they heard this.

I didn't expect that human beings have developed to the current level, but they still can't help this locust.

In this way, Bi Fang and Harley lay on the ground, quietly waiting for the locusts to pass.

It wasn't until the sun hung high that the hum in the sky completely dissipated and became clear.

It was as if the dark clouds that were pressing overhead had suddenly dissipated.

(End of chapter)