an area of more than seven million km2is within reach of a Desert Locustswarmover the course of 10 days. The great mobility of locusts has profound management implications. Vast areas must be incorporated into planning control programs, and moving equipment and supplies in regions with poor trans...
in swarms made it a major enemy of agriculturists from the Canary Islands to Afghanistan. However, outbreaks of the Moroccan locust seem to have been more frequent in the past and, in many regions, the species has become rare. Climatic factors, in ...
vast locust swarms migrating into those regions and causing enormous vegetation loss; (3) the soil moisture and NDVI anomalies corresponded well with the locust swarm movements; and (4) there was a low chance the eastwardly migrating locust swarms would fly into the Indochina Peninsula and ...