Animals & Nature
A desert locust swarm covering one square km eats the same amount of food in a day as how many people?
Answer
35,000 people
A one-square-km swarm holds about 40 million locusts, each eating its own weight daily. Swarms can grow thousands of times that size — one measured in Kenya during the 2020 East Africa outbreak covered about 2,400 square km.
Source: UN FAO Locust Watch
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