Insecticide is sprayed from the back of a farmer's truck onto the roadside soil where locusts have hatched and started hopping, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm.
One-week-old locusts start forming bands and hopping towards cultivated land, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm
Bruce Moon, a crop farmer, holds up a locust for a photograph outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm
Bruce Moon, a crop farmer, sprays insecticide from the back of his truck onto roadside soil where locusts have hatched and started hopping, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm.
One-week-old locusts start forming bands and hopping towards cultivated land, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm.
LOCUST Plague faces LOCUST MUNCHER..flv
The Australian plague locust
