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The International African Migratory Locust Organization (OICMA) was founded in 1955. Its aim was to "exercise continuous surveillance and preventive control of the African migratory locust in the outbreak area on the River Niger, destroy concentrations of the locust, carry out research and develop means of control."
The migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) is the most widespread locust species, and the only species in the genus Locusta. It occurs throughout Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. It occurs throughout Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
The migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), sometimes classified into up to 10 subspecies, swarms in Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, but has become rare in Europe. [28] In 2013, the Madagascan form of the migratory locust formed many swarms of over a billion insects, reaching "plague" status and covering about half the country by March ...
Locust swarms had infested 23 countries by April 2020. East Africa was the epicenter of the locust crisis—with Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda among the affected countries. However, the locusts had traveled far, wiping out crops in Pakistan and damaging farms in Yemen, a fragile country already hit hard by years of conflict.
Locusta migratoria – Migratory locust of Asia, Africa and eastern Europe; Locustana pardalina – Brown locust of Southern Africa; Melanoplus differentialis – Differential grasshopper of Northern Mexico, central USA and southern Ontario, Canada; Melanoplus sanguinipes – Migratory grasshopper of Caribbean and North America
Locusta migratoria manilensis, commonly known as the Oriental migratory locust, is a subspecies of the migratory locust (L. migratoria) in the family Acrididae.It is sufficiently different in size and structure from the African migratory locust to be considered a distinct subspecies of the migratory locust. [1]
The desert locust is a species of orthopteran in the family Acrididae, subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. [2] There are two subspecies, one called Schistocerca gregaria gregaria, the better known and of huge economic importance, located north of the equator, and the other, Schistocerca gregaria flaviventris, [9] [10] which has a smaller range in south-west Africa and is of less economic importance ...
Phymateus viridipes, also known as the green milkweed locust or African bush grasshopper, is an African locust in the family Pyrgomorphidae (gaudy grasshoppers). Body characteristics [ edit ]