China sending ‘duck army’ to counter locusts

[jgoodguy]

China may send ‘duck army’ to fight locusts

China is planning to send up to 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help the country contain a huge plague of locusts. Locusts have erupted into plague proportions in East Africa and countries on both sid…

asiatimes.com

China is sending up to 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help the country contain a huge plague of locusts.

Locusts have erupted into plague proportions in East Africa and countries on both sides of the Red Sea – affecting Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman – due to the strong monsoon.

The locust swarm spread right across the Gulf to Pakistan, which declared a state of emergency because of this earlier this month.

After a request for help from Islamabad, the Chinese government sent a locust plague prevention and control team to the South Asian country. Ningbo Evening News reported that “an army” of as many as 100,000 ducks would be “deployed” to Pakistan soon on behalf of China to try to eliminate the marauding locusts.

 

[rittmeister]

doesn't look like a duck at first glance - i kinda like locusts (fried that is)

 

[5fish]

The chickens kick butt but they sending ducks...