7 funniest responses to China sending an army of ducks to fight a swarm of locusts

We don’t mean to worry anyone, but there have been raging fires, torrential floods, a globally spreading disease, and now – a plague of locusts. If some guy turns up with an ark and starts gathering animals, it might be time to start praying.

Joking aside, the swarm of locusts, the largest seen for 25 years, has been devastating crops in parts of Africa and Pakistan, as well as disrupting flights.

However, China has come up with a solution that doesn’t involve pesticides – 100,000 ducks.

China prepares 100,000 ducks to battle Pakistan's locust swarms

A single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day https://t.co/D3IgmCYFK8

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 27, 2020

The unconventional approach got Twitter in a flap, with these posts standing out from the crowd.

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can't help but feel an army of ducks preparing to battle an army of locusts should be a bigger story https://t.co/wunMJZvP8v

— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) February 27, 2020

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Who will fight the duck swarmhttps://t.co/Xxz9PJUZ3r

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) February 27, 2020

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Release the quacken https://t.co/UCsBvn1ZBB

— The Serfs (@theserfstv) February 27, 2020

4.

they're sending their best, it's a quack team https://t.co/SkGese9udQ

— David Wyllie (@journodave) February 27, 2020

5.

Godspeed to our brave troops https://t.co/IXsNgFhRqD

— katy (@itsbedtime_) February 27, 2020

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when real life sounds like one of the penguin's plans to take over gotham city https://t.co/03KsaDNILQ

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 27, 2020

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The original plan was one horse-sized duck: https://t.co/PK5DhXbUwV

— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) February 27, 2020

Unsurprisingly, writer Sarah Jaffe interpreted the omens.

This apocalypse is kind of shit but I am here for the duck army https://t.co/qOtkgGwrkj

— Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) February 27, 2020

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