The Year of the Locust: The ground-breaking second novel from the internationally bestselling author of I AM PILGRIM

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This allows her team to examine, for example, the impact on greenness of an upcoming dry spell, which will affect locust activity.

He has also done un-credited writing on a host of other movies including Reign of Fire, Cliffhanger and Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster.

Drones with elastic launchers, which can travel hundreds of kilometres while mapping areas of greenery have been added to the defence arsenal. Now, with The Year of the Locust, Hayes has penned a breathtaking story about cutting-edge science, a government conspiracy, and one man’s desperate attempt to unravel it all. A breakneck story of nonstop suspense, The Year of the Locust is a high-concept thriller unlike any you’ve read before. Such invasive insects as the Mormon cricket (actually a katydid) still thrive in the region and have threatened Western crops as recently as the summer of 2010.

Handheld sprayers can be used to tackle smaller infestations, but with large swarms, aerial spraying is the only option.West Africa experiences locust invasions every few years, so they have to have a whole range of defences, with teams dedicated to monitoring breeding areas and to providing a swift response with the support of cars, planes and equipment,” says Nakalembe. Gourmands claimed that locust coated in butter, fried and seasoned with salt and pepper tasted just like crawfish.