Does anyone have a contact where this is happening? I think there might
be a way to preserve these grasshoppers for use to feed the hungry in
that country. This is the research I work on and I may have some
methods to make it possible.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/africa/madagascar-locusts
Thanks!
ATD of ATB
On 3/28/2013 12:25 PM, Martin Meiss wrote:
I wonder if that landscape shown in the video is former rainforest. I saw
on a nature program recently that Madagascar has lost 80 percent of its
original forest cover. It's not hard to believe that could have something
to do with locust population dynamics.
Martin M. Meiss
2013/3/28 David Inouye <[email protected]>
Here's an example of a current events science news story that I'll use at
the beginning of my intro ecology/evolution course next week. Particularly
appropriate as we're starting to talk about population growth. I find that
students respond well to hearing a few minutes at the start of each lecture
about some current science news story, often new since the last lecture, as
it helps reinforce the point that what they are learning in this course has
applications outside the classroom.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/**world/africa/madagascar-**
locusts/index.html<http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/africa/madagascar-locusts/index.html>
Some impressive footage of an ongoing locust swarm in Madagascar, with a
link to some similar video of the one in Israel and Egypt.
David
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