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...
"From Pine Tree Bark, to Locust Beans native to the Mediterranean Island, to advanced versions of Potato Proteins, my team has developed a powdered mixture that Laduree and other Macaron manufacturers in Paris, USA, Japan and Hong Kong will use to embrace the modern vegan age," stated Stephan...
Phase change is the defining characteristic of locust biology because of its critical roles in swarm formation (Fig. 2a)5. As a fascinating type of phenotypic plasticity, phase change is required to achieve biological complexity at all levels of biological organization, from molecules to large aggre...
This chapter focuses on the role ofSgVKR in the adult female desert locust,S. gregaria. This ravenous swarm-forming phytophagous pest insect is a serious threat to the agricultural production in some of the world’s poorest countries, as swarms may contain thousands of millions of individuals e...
Katrina didn’t seem to go the “major locust swarm” way, and that was about as “worst case” as I have seen in my considerable lifetime. And it had major-grade disfunctional YGBFSM-screwup government. Florida’s 2004 mass hurricane evacuations are more typical of how Americans react....
In stark contrast to satellite imagery, often constrained by resolution limitations that impede swarm detection, DWRs offer unparalleled spatial and temporal resolution, rendering them indispensable tools in this endeavour. Harnessing radar capabilities within the current infrastructure, unleashes unparalleled ...
Desert locusts are considered one of the most dangerous pest species in Northern Africa and the Middle East (Cressman2016). A key feature of their lifestyle is a prominent phase polyphenism, a density-dependent change between a cryptic, solitarious phenotype at low density, and a swarm-forming...
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The current management strategy of the locust swarm is aerial spraying with chemical pesticides, which has a high cost on humans, livestock, and the environment in addition to its economic burden at the national level biodiversity. Studies have shown that desert locust has the ability to change ...
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