2020 Is Not Done Yet: Jaipur Got Invaded By Swarms Of Locusts And The Videos Look Apocalyptic
Click here to watch the videos of when Locust swarms Invaded Jaipur and made it look like an apocalyptic Hollywood Movie.
2020 is no one¡¯s year, that has been made clear in the first five months. After cyclone Amphan and amid coronavirus outbreak, India is fight another battle - that against locust swarms. It seems like we are in some Hollywood movie, with the kind of apocalytic incidents taking place, but this one DOES NOT SEEM TO END!
PTI
The states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab are being troubled by locust swarms that have destroyed crops and trees while on the move. These swarms originated from and matured in, Iran and Pakistan¡¯s Balochistan.
The desert locust attack has wiped out crops spread over 5,00,000 hectares in Rajasthan. The state has been battling with the locust menace for over three months now. On May 25, Twitter was itself swarmed with videos and photos of locust attack in the city of Jaipur.
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¡ª ANI_HindiNews (@AHindinews) May 25, 2020
Since the locusts could not find a lot of crops in Jaipur, they attacked the trees.
The videos and pictures instill a sense of apocalyptic doom, and the thought- 'could things get any scarier in 2020?'
#locust swarm in India. Now in Jaipur, Rajasthan also pic.twitter.com/YxlWAWniFU
¡ª Tanu Patni Mordia (@tanupatnimordia) May 25, 2020
One video shows the locusts just sitting on a roof at one of the houses in the city. There are so many of them that it is hard to get even a slight glimpse of the ground under them. It is only after they can be seen flying that one sees the ground. Still, trying to make a sense of how many they are is probably more difficult than counting one¡¯s own hair.
Locust swarm in Jaipur
¡ª Flor (@flor_enthus) May 25, 2020
pic.twitter.com/RZ5hRputFT
Other videos show them flying at high speed in the city in the middle of the day, looking as if on a mission (technically, they are on a mission, to destroy crops) like in a Hollywood apocalyptic movie.
Twitter is full of people calling 2020 the last year of humanity just because of the number of things that are going wrong, and there are still 7 months to go in this year.
Locust swarm attack in Jaipur...
¡ª prabhat Saharan (@PRABHATSAHARAN) May 26, 2020
That's it, 2020 is the last year for humankind...!!!
Save farmer save life ?#Agriculture_Supervisor_Justice
Jaipur sky with locust swarm pic.twitter.com/yaLm8w50bB
¡ª Sumit Dookia (@sumitdookia) May 25, 2020
Locust attack in Rajasthan. Jaipur today. They have ability to eat crops like anything. Via @DrRakeshGoswami pic.twitter.com/eROJ08gRWI
¡ª Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) May 25, 2020
Locust swarm overtake Jaipur city yesterday...more than half of Rajasthan 33 District impacted... difficult time for farmers to safeguard their crops? pic.twitter.com/lebVkzCnaw
¡ª Sandeep Tripathi, IFS (@sandeepifs) May 25, 2020
#ALERT :-#LocustAttack
¡ª (((??Eagle~Eye?))) (@cbinewton) May 25, 2020
Started from Africa in 2019 and continuing...
Locust swarm entered India, via Pakistan-India Border(Jodhpur) & now heading towards #Delhi & #UP.
The current Location is #Jaipur, Rajasthan.#Locusts pic.twitter.com/digfEvU2fd
According to locust forecasting officer at United Nation's food and agriculture organisation, this is the worst locust attack in India in 27 years.
India had not witnessed any full-blown locust cycles after 1962, however, according to the experts, large-scale upsurges were observed during 1978 and 1993.
Locusts are usually considered innocuous but when their population rise, they become rather uncontrollable. With a denser population, together they attack crops and destroy them completely.
Let us hope that 2020 - or any other year - has no more swarms of anything destroying our crops and trees and resting on our roofs, or another virus that would change the life of millions.
