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Chickens are excellent natural enemies of locusts (蝗虫). On average, one chicken can catch over 600 locusts a day and can cover 0.6 acre of grassland.

    1     (official) in China’s Xinjiang have handed out over 2,200 chickens to local farmers,     2     (hope) to control locusts. There has been a decline in the locust population in several counties     3     the measure has been adopted.

A report predicted     4     (high) than normal incidents of locusts for the northern part of China,     5     (main) owing to warmer winter temperatures. Nearly 10,000 acres in Wushi County have already been destroyed by locusts.

Previous efforts to kill locusts in Xinjiang included pesticides that, while effective, also     6     (end) up killing off beneficial insects and harming the ecosystem. Alternatively, only 100 chickens last year in Wushi County were able to effectively limit damage     7     more than 1,300 acres.

This isn’t the first time China     8     (use) birds against locusts. A Telegraph story described how the government trained 700,000 chickens and ducks     9     (run) after and consume locusts at the sound of a whistle. The campaign, which included nearly 280,000 people, was a response to the country’s worst locust outbreak in    10    quarter century.

【知识点】 自然灾害与防范 动物

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