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Desert locust swarms and child health [PDF]
Economics & Human Biology, 2022 This study evaluates how in-utero exposure to an insect pest invasion, particularly, the outbreak of desert locust swarms, affects early childhood health in Africa and Asia over the past three decades (1990-2018). Employing the difference-in-differences model, we find that children being prenatally exposed to the outbreak have their height-for-age ...
Kien, Le, My, Nguyen
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Desert locust invasion in Nepal and possible management strategies: A review
Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2021 Desert locusts are the harmful pests that feed on every edible substance available on their way. One single mature locust can consume crops equal to its weight.
Meena Pandey +4 more
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Plagues of Desert Locusts: Very Low Invasion Risk to China
Insects, 2020 Recently, the most serious upsurge of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) in the last 25 years is spreading across eastern Africa and southwestern Asia.
Yun-Ping Wang +8 more
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Effects of water extracts of frass from three locust species and various plants on oviposition and embryonic development in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria [PDF]
Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2019 The water extract of desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, frass collected in the wild had an oviposition inhibitory (OI) effect when mixed with sand and presented to adults.
Seiji Tanaka +6 more
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Insects, 2023 The current paper provides a detailed review of the historical outbreaks of each of the four plague locust species found in South Africa, namely the brown locust, the African migratory locust, the red locust, and the southern African desert locust.
Roger Edward Price
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Aggregation Site Choice by Gregarious Nymphs of the Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria, in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania. [PDF]
Insects, 2018 Maeno KO, Ould Babah Ebbe MA.
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Remote Sensing, 2020 In history, every occurrence of a desert locust plague has brought a devastating blow to local agriculture. Analyses of the potential geographic distribution and migration paths of desert locusts can be used to better monitor and provide early warnings ...
Chaoliang Chen +6 more
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Exploring the relationship between tychoparthenogenesis and inbreeding depression in the Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2017 Tychoparthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction in which a small proportion of unfertilized eggs can hatch spontaneously, could be an intermediate evolutionary link in the transition from sexual to parthenogenetic reproduction.
Little CJ +4 more
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Regional Differences in Control Operations during the 2019–2021 Desert Locust Upsurge
Agronomy, 2021 The desert locust remains a major threat to global food security. Control operations are a crucial tool to manage crisis; this research investigated the nature of control operations conducted between 2019–2021.
Renata Retkute +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 The entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium acridum in oil-based formulations (Green Muscle® (GM)) is a biopesticide for locust control lacking side-effects on biodiversity, unlike chemical insecticides.
Wim C Mullié +4 more
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