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Until the weekend, locust fighters thought they had won the battle over Australia's worst locust outbreak since December 2000.
More than 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres) have been sprayed in a bid to contain the plague.
But the heavy rainfalls that ended the drought last month rendered the insecticides virtually useless.
"Over the last week, substantial redistribution of adult locusts have occurred with movements into northern New South Wales," said the Australian Plague Locust Commission.
Commission director, Laury McCulloch, said the locusts were being picked up on the wheels of vehicles and taken into several towns.
New South Wales farmer Joe Davis, who has already lost crops to the locusts, said he had been warned to expect the worst.
"In a few days, we will see locusts that will just black the sun out," he told ABC television. "There won't be a green thing, they'll even eat the clothes off the washing line."
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