Word: schistocerca
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...still they came, the red-legged Schistocerca paranensis, in fresh waves from Argentina. Farmers tried to scare them off by waving bamboo sticks, beating drums, blowing sirens, sending out little dogs with bells around their necks.* Others tried shoveling up all young locusts still unable to fly, piling them in fenced-off areas and burying or burning them...