The Economist (US), June 11th, 1988
IN THE past three years an outbreak of locusts in Ethiopia has escalated into a plague that is threatening all of north Africa and is edging beyond. Exceptional rains have helped. So, some experts believe, did a ban demanded by western environmentalists on dieldrin, the insecticide once used to control locusts. They think that the risks it poses are preferable to the devastation of crops that has occurred without it.
The species that is now on the rampage is the desert locust, whose voracity and mobility make it one of the world's worst pests. It can eat its own weight every day. This means...
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