Footage shot on Monday shows large plagues of locusts emerging around Charters Towers,in north Queensland, wiping out grass shoots that had begun to sprout after rain in late December. The city’s mayor, and Frank Beveridge,said the problem was particularly bad to the west. ‘You can be driving along and then hit a enormous plague of them and be left with dead insects all over your car,’ he said. ‘It can be fairly devastating whether you are a grazier and have waited 12 months for rain ... and then the grass disappears’Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com