desert locust

基本解釋

DNA shows that ancestors of the desert locust flew across the Atlantic and gave rise to a diverse group of New World species.
研究人員表示，這些蝗蟲(chóng)的DNA證據(jù)顯示，非洲沙漠蝗的祖先們?cè)w越了大西洋，并在美洲大陸生成了一個(gè)新的蝗蟲(chóng)種群。
During the 1988 desert locust plague, swarms crossed the Atlantic from Mauritania to the Caribbean, flying 5 000 kilometres in 10 days.
在1988年的沙漠蝗災(zāi)中，蝗群從毛里塔尼亞穿越大西洋來(lái)到加勒比，10天之內(nèi)飛行了5000公里。
Since the dawn of agriculture more than 10 000 years ago mankind has had to deal with a resourceful and fearless enemy, Schistocerca gregaria, the desert locust.
自從一萬(wàn)多年前農(nóng)業(yè)誕生以來(lái)，人類(lèi)就一直在與源源不斷和無(wú)所畏懼的敵人Schistocerca gregaria，即沙漠蝗蟲(chóng)打交道。