Sardinia, billions of grasshoppers are destroying the Nuorese
It was just missing the invasion of the grasshoppers. After the pandemic, the war, the drought here is a new one big issue to deal with. In the center of the Sardiniabillions of specimens have invaded the land. Experts have no doubts: “One of the most severe infestations of the recent decades“. The locusts – reads the Republic – are sweeping 30 thousand hectares of the province of Nuoro. They eat 200-250 tons of vegetables per day. In the meantime, the peasants just have to contemplate the destruction of theirs crops. It does not go better in vegetable gardens and gardens.
Who drives the streets of the plain of Ottana and of the Tirso valley, further west, – continues Repubblica – we find the glass obscured by the bodies of Dociostaurus maroccanus, or Crusader grillastro, the same Grasshopper that has plagued the North Africa. Entomologists these days tour the island to collect the beetles. “We take them to the infested areas from the grasshoppers and free them there ”, says an employee who has returned from several patrols. “At the moment their number is not sufficient to stop one swarmbut over time they might stop the plague“.
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