Meanings of locust plague in English

With their customary fatalism they accepted the locust plague as a necessary evil.

They had come only because drought and a great locust plague had destroyed their crops and the grazing for their cattle.

The locust plague is the largest experienced in 70 years and there are fears it will spread right through the continent.

He would liken this to a locust plague which, though a natural thing, was a riotous act of nature which should be contained.

A farmers' association in Kenya's northern Laikipia area said it was planning aerial spraying of pesticides to combat the worst locust plague since 1954.

Droughts and locust plagues caused by cooler spells probably triggered internal wars, the authors said.

Locust plagues can cause havoc when they occur in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.

Locust plagues wiped out harvests on a massive scale, China descended into famine, people started eating people and millions died.

I could have given the money to cancer research, to the preservation of rainforests, to the fight against locust plagues in East Africa.