Locusts also known as ‘tiddi dal’ is a group of short-horned grasshoppers which multiplies during migration from long distances in destructive swarms and devours the vegetation wherever it settles.
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government has issued an alert of a locust attack in all the districts bordering Rajasthan. As it is apprehended that the swarm of locust may come towards the state after they have devoured wheat crop over a large area in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
The swarm of locusts also known as ‘tiddi dal’ is a group of short-horned grasshoppers which multiplies during migration from long distances in destructive swarms and devours the vegetation wherever it settles. Thus the damage and loss caused by locusts is enormous. A small locust swarm can eat as much as ten elephants or 25 camels will eat in one day.
Please click here to read more.