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Olympic trials: The locusts of control

Posted on July 04, 2008

By Sara BarzOfficials in the Northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia have mobilized 33,000 people to stop a swarm of locusts 430 km of Beijing (267 mi). Concerned that the locust swarm may descend on Beijing during the Olympic Games, the regional government has set aside 4 million yuan for pesticides and large-scale spraying machinery. As of July 2, the swarm had infested 1.3 million hectares (5,000 square miles). The larvae are in the hatching stage in the counties and cities near Beijing, Gao Wenyuan, of the Inner Mongolia's grassland office, told the Xinhua news agency, as reported in...

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