Race To Kill Locusts
<N. Z.P.A. -Reuter — Copuright) CAPE TOWN, November 15. Pest controllers are racing against time to kill off millions of young locusts on farmlands in the Northern Cape and southern Orange Free State before the insects grow wings. About 1250 exterminators armed with spraying equipment have about five to six weeks to wipe out the swarms —some of them up to a mile long and three-quarters of a mile wide —before the locusts take to the air.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31530, 18 November 1967, Page 19
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