Villagers in Kiambere, Kenya are attempting to smoke out swarms of locusts that have been devouring their crops.

Filmed on January 25, several locals are sene lighting fires to smoke out the hundreds of thousands of insects.

A swarm of migratory locusts invaded Kiambere county in Embu and devoured crops in their path further straining food supplies in the area, so far the member of municipal county office managed to bring two helicopters which sprayed insecticides on the Locust but it did not yield much,

Villagers have opted to smoke them out by starting fires, Reason for their migration and outbreak can be attributed to the unseasonal rainfall patterns witnessed in Kenya for the last one year.