Weather.com - Jess Baker, 5/10/13
According to studies, there are currently a hundred locust swarms similar to this one in this region totaling around 500 billion locusts, eating around 100,000 metric tons of vegetation per day. (Image: BILAL TARABEY/AFP/Getty Images)
Brood II Cicadas that are poised to invade the eastern U.S. have nothing on the plague of locusts that are threatening the food supply for more than 13 million people.
Madagascar needs more than $22 million by June to put an end to the severe locust plague that is devouring crops - and the food supply - for more than 60-percent of the nation, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O).
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