Talk:2019–2022 locust infestation

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Merge

I merged 2019–20 Pakistan locust infestation and 2019–20 East Africa locust infestation into this article for now, as all three articles were quite short. If the article gets expanded enough, they can be split out again. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 12:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Cause Section

There is this sentence at the end of the Cause section, I'm not sure it should be there, "On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, legalized it in all fifty states, and required states to honor out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses in the case Obergefell v. Hodges." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.143.128 (talk) 21:12, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

That issue has been already fixed. --Wisdood (talk) 11:25, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Moses tried to warn us... Ardyr Ioris (talk) 17:51, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

South American locust infestation is unrelated

While this article is generically named "2019-20 locust infestation", the swarms that originated in the southern Middle East and spread northwards to Pakistan (et al.) and southwards to the Horn of Africa are unrelated to the South American infestation. It's best to leave it in there for now, given the lack of content on it, but the lack of connection should at least be noted -- Ardyr Ioris (talk) 13:56, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

How can we indicate it inside the article ? --Wisdood (talk) 11:25, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

I changed the wording slightly to emphasise their separation. Ideally, they'd be two different articles, but given that the South American swarm has too little information on it to warrant a full article, and the rest of the article covers so many different countries, it's probably best to leave it as it is. Ardyr Ioris (talk) 23:44, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

2014 locusts to illustrate 2019 ??

Swarm of locusts near Satrokala, Madagascar (May 2014) Err ??? --Wisdood (talk) 11:19, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

There aren't any freely licensed images of swarms related to this particular outbreak, at least, not that I could find. Perhaps this FAO-licensed ("Editorial use only") image can be used? The map is already used under a similar license (presumably). Ardyr Ioris (talk) 23:44, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

2019-2021

https://www.scidev.net/global/africa-science-focus/locust-invasion-spawns-new-food-threat/ https://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/news/new-locust-swarms-to-attack-east-africa/ https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958543535/locust-swarms-threaten-parts-of-east-africa

There is still a locust infection in 2021, can someone change the title?

Also, the website seem legit so pls dont revert. Haris920 (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2021 (UTC)