### q1 locusts are a unique pest because they swarm and fly > "Unlike other pests, which are localized, desert locusts can swarm and fly, and an entire region can be wiped out of crops," as the locusts come through and chow down, said Esther Ngumbi, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who studies agricultural pests and food insecurity. The enormous swarms of desert locusts can be utterly devastating for famers whose livelihoods depend solely on those crops, she said. This would be a good reason NOT to do monocrop agriculture, right? How did people cope with locust swarms before their eggs were in one basket, metaphorically? #articleseed - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fn7b9t9kkkst06cs92ts2xrb) - [[What Are Locusts and Why Do They Swarm by Greg Uyeno#q1 locusts are a unique pest because they swarm and fly|View in Vault]]