In a year indisputably marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the journal Nature offers its usual selection of scientific images in which SARS-CoV-2 is not the only protagonist.
At the top, the photo shows a man from Samburu County, Kenya, amid a swarm of desert locusts, one of the worst seen in 70 years. These swarms appeared in East Africa and the Middle East, threatening food production and livelihoods. Heavy rains can cause the insects to reproduce quickly, as they lay their eggs in moist soil.
