South China may be invaded by locusts

Flying destruction: Children trying to drive away desert locusts swarming in the Okara district of eastern Pakistan. — Xinhua

GUANGXI: The invasion of desert locusts that has already thrust millions of Africans into a food security crisis may pose threats to China’s southern regions this summer.

Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, as well as the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, are most likely to be affected, according to Zhang Zehua, a researcher at the Institute of Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.