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Locusts can cause ruin

SWARMS of locusts can cause havoc to farmlands. A typical swarm can be 50km long and contain more than 100billion locusts. Locusts are large grasshoppers that usually live a solitary and harmless existence, but when their numbers build up, they join together to look for food. - Encyclopedia of Questions and Answers, Bounty Books

SWARMS of locusts can cause havoc to farmlands. A typical swarm can be 50km long and contain more than 100billion locusts. Locusts are large grasshoppers that usually live a solitary and harmless existence, but when their numbers build up, they join together to look for food. - Encyclopedia of Questions and Answers, Bounty Books

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