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| Mystery worms turn on northwest China herdsmen | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 10 2009, 11:40 PM (272 Views) | |
| XNavyGunner | May 10 2009, 11:40 PM Post #1 |
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An invasion of unidentified worms has forced 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state news agency Xinhua said Friday. The worms are packed up to 3,000 per square meter and chew through the grasslands like lawnmowers, leaving only brown soil in their wake, Xinhua said. The agency described it as the worst plague in three decades in Usu, about 280 km (175 miles) west of the Xinjiang capital Urumqi. Local experts could not identify the 2-cm (1 inch) long, thorny green worm with black stripes and samples had been sent to Xinjiang Agricultural University, Xinhua said. "The pasture was green a week ago. But now the worms are creeping around, and they even come into my house. I have to sweep them out several times an hour," Xinhua quoted one herdsman as saying. Xinjiang has in the past used chickens, ducks and other birds to fight locusts, which are also a menace on the grasslands, but so far they have shown little interest in the pesky worms. One local official said the worms might be moth larvae that have flourished in the relatively warm winter and plenty of rain. Source |
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| Isis | May 11 2009, 06:53 AM Post #2 |
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The Goddess of Darkness & Desire
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Oh man how gross..... |
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| Mystical | May 11 2009, 11:22 AM Post #3 |
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I'm sure they will find something to contain them...they always do...They bring other types of insects etc, when their is an outbreak of something doing that that type of distruction. |
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| StrmySummer | May 11 2009, 04:02 PM Post #4 |
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parasites.....lol...kill em all |
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| Max | May 11 2009, 04:10 PM Post #5 |
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Pickle barrel, pickle barrel, Kumquat!
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I can guess how this one will go: bring in bigger insects to eat the worms. These insects swarm,so they bring in ducks to eat the insects. Then the ducks go wild,eating crops and keeping people awake,so they bring in elephants to "stamp out' the ducks........or maybe I watch too many Looney Toons.
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| newbloodmoon | May 11 2009, 04:32 PM Post #6 |
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They should call Japan and see if Godzilla is free to loan. |
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| The Mule | May 12 2009, 01:53 AM Post #7 |
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Actually fire WOULD be the best sollution. Slash and burn agriculture... |
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