# Traps for swarms of locust

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 # Traps for swarms of locust 

Inspired by the great plague 2020:

 Simple, large, net-covered frames would be cheap to create.

 Large, net-covered frames can be produced cheaply and easily as follows:

 The body is made of long bamboo poles. In "peacetime" these are stacked under tarpaulins.

By inserting the thinner bar end into a thick bar start, units of any length are created.

With e.g. 50 m side length and 10 m height, the net traps, made of 100 bamboo poles and 4,500 m2 net, form a volume of 25,000 m3.

 Alignable to the direction of flight of the arriving swarm, the respective side front is left on the ground and thus forms the open entry into the cage.

 Several tons of the protein-rich grasshoppers can be caught in it and, depending on the circumstances, used for agricultural purposes.

 Gradually, charred in easy-to-do pyrolysis stoves, the scent scares away other locusts from the area and results in a good soil improvement as a Animal charcoal fertilizer. Large parts of the yield could serve as food for the pets or possibly also for the humans.

Attractants - which would have to be developed - could let the swarms fly into such traps.

Ducks like to eat live grasshoppers as well as harmful rice snails in large quantities from the field.

The goal must be a harmoniously tolerable population. It is not intended to overstate the “harmful side of grasshopper species”, nor to endanger the need for safe crop yields of local people.

At best, these approaches should also flow to the UNHCR. FAO and UNIDO for further implementation.