Word: gregaria
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Those same locusts that plagued ancient Egypt and the Israelites -known to science as Schistocerca gregaria forsk-were back again. This time, the country under attack was Ethiopia. Last week agriculture experts reported that sections of the country's northern provinces were being devastated by 33 separate locust swarms, ranging in size from 5 to 40 sq. mi. Neighboring Somalia, meanwhile, reported 17 giant swarms of the buzzing, shell-covered creatures, which can sweep 100 sq. mi. of farm land clean overnight. Jean Roy, an expert in locust control operations for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
...desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a hairy, six-legged, doublejawed grasshopper whose behavior has been exasperation and puzzling mankind ever since his appearance in Exodus as one of the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt by a wrathful Jehovah. Much of the time he is a normal grasshopper, evenly dispersed and foraging alone. Then suddenly, and at unpredictable intervals, he turns into a mob, blackening the skies like a tornado...
...enemy: the desert locust. In the conference rooms of Britain's Anti-locust Research Center, which works with the United Nations, entomologists and agricultural scientists from 30 nations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East gather to mount a defense against the ugly winged brutes known as Shistocerca gregaria...
...desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria forsk) has made its name dread to generations of African and Middle Eastern farmers from Biblical times down to the recent destructive plague of locusts in Iran...
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