A plague of locusts known as "tucura sapo" is advancing uncontrollably in the northern plateau of Chubut, province of Argentinian Patagonia, affecting in principle an area of 40 lots of 625 hectares each, inside which there are several outbreaks that could not be contained by the health authorities.

The phenomenon was confirmed by the director of the central plateau of the Rural Development Corporation, Mario Reguiló, who admitted that progress had been made "with a management program but obviously it didn't work and now the plague has grown a lot and it's hard for us to fight it because we can't find adequate remedies”.

This species has the particularity of not having wings and spawns in stony areas where shrubby plants predominate, so its displacement is not that of a "cloud" that rises in the sky as happens with its relatives the grasshoppers, but that it crawls.

"As they could not be fought in the preventive controls when the species was juvenile now becomes complicated because they reach adulthood and require other remedies to attack them," said Reguiló.

According to the technician's interpretation, the pest expanded rapidly "due to the meteorological conditions favored by low humidity and temperatures that this year were not as extremely low as usually occurs for these latitudes”.

The official admitted that "for now there is little that can be done, the plague advances and eats everything in its path, even eat each other because they have cannibalistic habits and consume each other when someone dies.

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