Resources
Locust, grasshopper, insect management and transboundary pest organizations. Please contact us if you would like to be included, or know of other resources we should list!
Education and outreach materials
Community Management of Locusts and Grasshoppers in Central Senegal
This booklet was created as a part of the project “Communities for Sustainable Agriculture” (Bay Sa Waar). Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, the project combines the specialized research skills of American, Canadian, French and Senegalese universities with local knowledge and experience of Senegalese institutions and farmers.
Pest Grasshoppers and Locusts in Central Senegal: An Agriculturist’s Guide
States across the nation continue to adopt policies aimed at de-centralizing and decarbonizing their energy systems through Renewable Portfolio Standards and Energy Efficiency Resource Standards, as well as a multitude of other policies. Electric utilities are not only the implementers in chief of these policies, but they also face transformational change if these policies succeed in allowing consumers to produce their own energy, thereby bypassing the utilities entirely.
Pest Grasshoppers and Locusts in Mali: An Agriculturist’s Guide
Pest Grasshoppers and Locusts in Niger: An Agriculturist’s Guide
The White/Wiphala paper on Indigenous Peoples Food Systems
The drafting of this White/Wiphala Paper was coordinated by the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and edited by a Technical Editorial Committee that summarised the main points received. The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems is the result of collective work by indigenous and non indigenous experts, scientists and researchers.
Step-by-Step Guide to Deal with a Grasshopper Infestation
A team consisting of Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, PhotoNitride Devices and SunVapor are working together to create a two-junction tandem InGaN solar cell which can operate under high temperatures and solar concentration in parallel with a solar thermal system. InGaN was chosen because of its tunable bandgap and its robustness at elevated temperatures. This “topping cell” will incorporate with a solar-thermal system, resulting in higher overall system efficiency at lower overall cost per watt.
Global and regional organizations
- Latest status of Desert Locust situation, updates, bulletins, forecasts, maps and photos FAO Desert Locust Watch
- The latest status of Desert Locust control operations FAO dashboard
- Survey and control data from field teams are available for downloading at FAO Locust Hub
- FAO’s Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS) Innovation Resources
- FAO Locust Watch: Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA)
- FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC)
- FAO Commission for Desert Locust Control in the Western Region (CLCPRO)
- FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia (SWAC)
- Information Core for Southern African Migratory Pests (ICOSAMP)
- The Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA)
- The Orthopterists’ Society
Organizations listed alphabetically by country
- National Agriculture and Forestry Innovation Institute (Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agropecuaria y Forestal, INIAF)
- National Service of Agricultural Health and Food Safety (Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria e Inocuidad Alimentaria, SENASAG)
- Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD, Recherche Agronomique Pour le Dévelopement)
- Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD, Recherche Agronomique Pour le Dévelopement), Center for Biology and Management of Populations (CBGP, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations)
- Yucatán State Plant Protection Committee (Comité Estatal de Sanidad Vegetal en el Estado de Yucatán, CESVY)
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program
- Online Grasshopper Identification Tool
- The National Grasshopper Management Board
- USDA ARS research and information on grasshoppers and Mormon crickets
- University of Wyoming grasshopper information
Newsletters and websites
- AcridAfrica, the acrdidids of West Africa (Les acridiens d’Afrique de l’Ouest)
- ACRIDOMORPH (Orthoptera) Species of Argentina and Uruguay
- Locust publications and information from CIRAD, in French and English
- Journal of Orthoptera Research
- Locust Emergency Preparedness Toolkit (FAO)
- Pesticide Referee Group Reports
- LocustBase (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Orthoptera Species File Online
- Metaleptea Newsletter
- National Pesticide Information Center
- Schistocerca Information Site
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Transboundary Outbreak Pest (ETOP) Bulletin
Research labs
- Ayali Locust Neuroscience Laboratory at Tel-Aviv University
- Behmer Insect Physiology and Behavior Research Group at Texas A&M
- Buhl Laboratory at the University of Adelaide
- Cease Locust Laboratory at Arizona State University
- USDA APHIS PPQ Science & Technology Phoenix Laboratory
- Center for Study of Parasitology and Vectors (Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores, CEPAVE) at the National University of La Plata
- Chapuis Research group on Locust ecology and molecular biology at CIRAD-CBGP
- Joern Lab (Grassland Insect Ecology)
- Kang Laboratory at Institute of Zoology (IOZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- Michel Lecoq – Entomologist and Locust Specialist Formerly Lecoq Operational Acridology Research Unit of the Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France
- Matheson Neurobiology Group at University of Leicester
- Nutritional Ecology and Physiology Lab at the University of Sydney
- Ott Laboratory at University of Leicester by Swidbert Ott
- Piou Research group on Locust ecology and molecular biology at CIRAD-CBGP
- Research Group of Molecular Developmental Physiology and Signal Transduction at KU Leuven
- Song Laboratory of Insect Systematics and Evolution at Texas A&M University
- Professor Stephen Simpson at the University of Sydney
- USDA ARS, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, Pest Management Research