La Nina triggers Aussie insect 'explosion'

By Emily Woods
Updated December 15 2021 - 11:31am, first published 11:29am
Wet and humid conditions from La Nina are ideal for insects like locusts and mosquitoes to boom.
Wet and humid conditions from La Nina are ideal for insects like locusts and mosquitoes to boom.

First came the fires, then a pandemic, floods and now a plague of locusts could swarm parts of eastern Australia.

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