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To: elpolvo who wrote (53002)	6/11/2002 12:53:44 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) of 65232

kerpie Aflak.. Offbeat News Tuesday, June 11, 2002 Locust-Eating Ducks Face Future in Pancakes BEIJING (Reuters) - China is enlisting armies of ducks to prevent a plague of locusts engulfing swathes of valuable cropland, but the birds will probably end up in restaurants. The Manasi locust station in the northwest is about to unleash 4,000 hungry ducks into surrounding fields to munch their way through as many of the insects as they can. "Ducks are the best way to get rid of locusts because they have such a big appetite," Xiao Hongwei said by telephone from the locust station on Tuesday. "After two or three months, they typically weigh around two kilos and can be sold to markets and roast duck restaurants" to be eaten wrapped in thin pancakes with plum sauce and spring onions. The ducks faced harder work this year because a longer-than-usual dry spell had increased the locust population, he said. Around Tianjin, only a few hours drive from Beijing, there were already up to 5,000 locusts per square meter and crop-dusting aircraft had been brought in to join in the fight, the China Daily said.

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