Giant locust storm likely to attack South Asia farmlands this summer

Found in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, locusts inhabit some 60 countries and can cover one-fifth of Earth's land surface. Desert locust plagues may threaten the economic livelihood of one-tenth of the world's humans. Each locust can eat its weight in plants each day, so a swarm of such size would eat 423 million pounds of plants every day.