{"id":8303,"date":"2020-02-26T08:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"how-changes-in-weather-patterns-could-lead-to-more-insect-invasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/26\/how-changes-in-weather-patterns-could-lead-to-more-insect-invasions\/","title":{"rendered":"How Changes In Weather Patterns Could Lead To More Insect Invasions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Esther Ndumi Ngumbi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outbreaks of insect pests and insect invasions are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-11857-0_4\">on the rise<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/polopoly_fs\/1.21527!\/menu\/main\/topColumns\/topLeftColumn\/pdf\/nature.2017.21527.pdf?origin=ppub\">African continent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, several African countries \u2013 including Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia \u2013 are dealing with the one of the most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/3062a16869436a7eeb2b5596c7d04278\">devastating<\/a>&nbsp;outbreaks of desert locusts. This comes after recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.invasive-species.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/FAW-Evidence-Note-October-2018.pdf\">fall armyworm<\/a>&nbsp;invasions which affected more than 44 African countries. Countries also grapple with more localised pest invasions of insects like the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/sabinet\/ento\/2014\/00000022\/00000002\/art00021\">South American tomato moth<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cipotato.org\/riskatlasforafrica\/busseola-fusca\/\">maize stem borers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many countries suffer from a lack of food because the insects can consume, or destroy, huge amounts of crops. Just five invasive insect pests are estimated to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2211912416301092\">cost the<\/a>\u00a0African continent US$1.1billion every year. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-changes-in-weather-patterns-could-lead-to-more-insect-invasions-131917\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Esther Ndumi Ngumbi Outbreaks of insect pests and insect invasions are&nbsp;on the rise&nbsp;on the&nbsp;African continent. Currently, several African countries \u2013 including Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia \u2013 are dealing with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}