AP: Panic in villages over swarms of insects

TIRUPATI/VISAKHAPATNAM: Tension gripped farmers living along the Andhra Pradesh-Tamil Nadu border following rumours of locustsattack on social media on Sunday. Similarly, people of a tribal village in the Visakhapatnam-Vizianagaram border also claimed to have noticed a species resembling locusts.

In chittor district following up on concerns raised by farmers of Vepanapalli and Vepenjeri village in Tamil Nadu, agriculture department officials swung into action and reviewed the situation. They ruled out a locust attack and maintained that the farmers and villagers of both Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh mistook grasshoppers for locusts.