Plague of locusts invades France
Record numbers of the voracious insects are devouring cropsAlex Duval Smith in ParisSunday July 17, 2005The Observer
In a devastating new twist to the severe drought hitting southern Europe, France is now fighting a plague of hundreds of thousands of locusts which are devouring everything from crops to flowers in village window boxes. The worst invasion by the voracious insects is centred on Saint-Affrique in the Aveyron region where, for the first time since 1987, hundreds of thousands have hatched in the last week.
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