Preventive control and desert locust plagues

By J. Magor, M. Lecoq, D. Hunter. 2008

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A Global Review on Locusts (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and Their Interactions With Livestock Grazing Practices (2019, background): “For example, before 1963, plagues in the 1900s persisted 7–14+ years (Waloff and Green, 1976; Symmons and Cressman, 2001); the four plagues that occurred between 1965–2006 each lasted <3 years (Magor et al., 2008).”
From Molecules to Management: Mechanisms and Consequences of Locust Phase Polyphenism (2017, background): “populations before they can expand into full-scale plagues (Magor et al., 2008).”
Locusts and remote sensing: a review (2013, background): “This significantly reduces the costs and contributes toward changing the paradigm of locust control from curative to preventive.(14) However, despite an important progress in this direction, remote sensing alone cannot solve all locust problems, and the pest still can get out of control, as was illu”