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WalkingDead posted an update 6 years, 2 months ago
I doubt 100K will be enough…
https://strangesounds.org/2020/02/china-sends-thousands-ducks-to-face-locust-plague-video.html
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These are what are called Runner Ducks which are used by many Asian countries to control insects on crops. They are great egg producers as well and because of their upright characteristic and long necks, are able to move quickly to their targets. (I raise chocolate colored ones for their eggs).
100,000 against billions, I believe they will need a great deal more to combat this. My wife and I prefer duck eggs over chicken eggs ourselves.
We also raise chickens for organic eggs… and adding Silver Appleyards which are used for both duck eggs and meat. I use duck eggs for baking, chicken eggs for eating as “eggs”. The duck eggs are a bit rich for my taste but it is probably more conditioning (years of eating chicken eggs).
The thing about these locusts is that they should have been able to stop the pestilence when it was at the nymph stage before they developed wings . It isn’t like they couldn’t have figured out that this was going to be a problem as the nymphs would be eating everything they could but are very localized as they can only crawl to the plants. This is when the ducks would have been the most helpful. Now that the locusts have the reached the adult stage with wings, runner ducks have no chance of defeating them. Just my experience studying entomology and raising farm animals for 60 years.
One might suspect that this was “allowed” to happen for nefarious purposes…