The Rome-based FAO says the desertlocusts are now moving into southwest Libya, southern Algeria and the borders of Morocco.
总部设在罗马的联合国粮农组织指出,沙漠蝗虫正向利比亚西南部、阿尔及利亚南部以及摩洛哥边境地区蔓延。
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The World Bank has already stepped in with a significant contribution – pledging credits totaling US$12.5 million in support of emergency programs to combat the desertlocusts.
Only in the mid-20th century was it realized that the light brown solitary desert-dwelling insect was the same species as the red and yellow locusts of the plagues.