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GLI collaborates across borders to manage pests and improve human livelihoods. Check out the website below for more information about how to get involved! 
locust.asu.eduJoined January 2017
Global Locust Initiative’s Tweets
Turning a Locust Invasion into a Fertilizer Boon
Read how the has been turning locusts into fertilizer to close the loop on an ecological cycle
🦗 locust ➡️ soil ⬆️🌱 nitrogen ⬇️ 🦗
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Ovarian development of yellow-spined bamboo locust sheds light on emergence and migratory nature of pest
Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fphys.
Empowering women can lift from food insecurity & build resilient & sustainable agrifood systems.
How do we know?
The forthcoming Report on the Status of Women in Agrifood Systems provides the evidence.
🗓️SaveTheDate
📔Launch on 13 April!
#LetsGrowEquality
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Probability of a Central American locust Schistocerca piceifrons piceifrons upsurge in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Congratulations on this publication 🎉
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After 6 years of research, we reached the final stage: its publication.
jor.pensoft.net/article/73824/
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I was just thinking about how everyone else must be envious of how we Orthopterists get to spend snowy Sundays.
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Join us at the BPRI Research Symposium 2023 on phenotypic plasticity in Houston, TX, May 15-16! Submit your abstract by April 15th to present your work via poster or 10-minute student talk. More details:
behavioralplasticity.org/index.php/2023
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The autumn weather was lovely — especially for grasshoppers in Canada
Those areas that had the pests last year will likely see more this year, but there are ways to reduce their numbers
🦗🦗🦗Interested in learning about crickets and katydids? Come join THE CRICKET COURSE 2023 from July 3-7, 2023 at the Archbold Biological Station in Florida. We have a few more spots available! To register, sign up at forms.gle/aX5yfM7WN4jfKL Please RT!
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Reports of #desertlocust outbreak in #Qatar untrue:
FAO reported that the situation is stable in the region and that the video clip circulating is old, dating back to 2019.
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تنويه هام:
لا صحة لأخبار انتشار الجراد الصحراوي
#وزارة_البلدية #قطر
Important Disclaimer:
News of Desert Locust Outbreak is Untrue
#MinistryOfMunicipality #Qatar
CABI shares expertise in FAO study paper exploring use of microbial and invertebrate biological control agents - CABI.org
Agronomy special issue "Locust and Grasshopper Management: Environmental Impacts and New Perspectives" is now open for submission!
For more information ➡️ bit.ly/3KSseLp
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Latest from the lab! Mike Traner engineered a closed-loop automated treadmill setup to print odor trails on-demand and used it to examine trail-following behavior in locusts! Thanks to funding from for supporting our work.
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Dynamic walking behavior during odor trail-following in locusts biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh #bioRxiv
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An interesting example of the supply chain effects of #locustoutbreaks
Transnet said it had to suspend mainline operations on the ore corridor for ~three days after more than 100km of line was hit by a huge swarm of locusts making the rail too slick.
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Agriculture Victoria also has some amazing free educational resources on their website bit.ly/3I9vJtJ
including a twenty minute interactive short learning course is also available online – Australian plague locust online learning module
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No plague expected from locust hatchings in northern Victoria #Australia
Agriculture Victoria encourages community to report locust sightings on website or via 136 186 – this helps track and share information about locust movements throughout the state
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Study shows optimum time to apply #biopesticides to tackle migratory locust in China
The scientists show #biopesticides are best applied on hoppers at dawn or dusk when temperatures are lower
Read the study ➡️ bit.ly/3E6dvrT
News release ➡️ bit.ly/3lFDkZe
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These "locusts" are actually Blue-winged grasshoppers (Oedipoda caerulescanes)
Nothing to worry about from a food security standpoint
National Center for the Prevention and Control of Plant Pests and Animal Diseases in #SaudiArabia clarifies
bit.ly/3lzZ8Wc
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Saudi club Al-Wehda, Al-Nassr and Cristiano Ronaldo's opponent last night, suffered a locust invasion in the middle of the match! 
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Australian Plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera) situation bulletin is available for February 2023 ⬇️
#Australianplaguelocust
#locust
#Australia
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Congratulations Stav Talal, , Shivam Parmar, Geoffrey Osgood, on their pub in
High carbohydrate consumption increases lipid storage and promotes migratory flight in #locusts
➡️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.24
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Desert locusts are capable of migrating over huge distances and now Stav Tilal @insectecophys @ArianneCease & co @ASU have found that Locusta migratoria need a high carb diet to fuel up ready for their extreme feat
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22
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Global Emergency Transboundary Outbreak Pest (GETOP) Situation Bulletin for January with a forecast through mid-March 2023
résumé en français est inclus
#Transboundarypests
#locusts
bit.ly/3lbg3hQ
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#Grasshoppers (not locusts) Dichroplus pratensis and Borellia bruneri outbreak in #Uruguay
Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, + other South American countries are experiencing severe drought making grasshopper damage more evident & relevant.
bit.ly/3wXa0QB
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🦗🦗🦗Interested in learning about crickets and katydids? Come join THE CRICKET COURSE 2023 from July 3-7, 2023 at the Archbold Biological Station in Florida. For more info and registration, visit: schistocerca.org/SongLab/index.. Please RT!
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The results of two years' worth of our Orthoptera fieldwork has just been published. There are more than 100 species in this relatively small area of Dinarides!
researchgate.net/publication/36
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Grasshopper sex life is interrupted by noisy humans
Anthropogenic noise can have widespread negative consequences for many animals, interfering with feeding, mating, predation risk, and physiological stress.
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#Kenyan Bee Keepers Decry Low Yield after locust spraying bit.ly/3iBeAjJ
An important perspective to consider consequences for non-target organisms 🐝
One of our giant grasshoppers (Tropidacris cristata) died, and here’s the culprit - a nematomorph, or ‘horsehair worm’. It had taken over almost the entire internal space. Fascinating, and also rather grim.
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We hope the new year is off to a great start for everyone!
If you haven't joined our online private professional community, now is the time to keep up with the events, discussions, and opportunities of 2023. Register here: bit.ly/JoinGlobalLocu
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Very pleased to share our Special Issue of the Journal of Insect Physiology, celebrating 100 years since Sir Boris Uvarov published his theory of locust phase polyphenism, a famous example of phenotypic plasticity #locust
sciencedirect.com/journal/journa
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Insects May Feel Pain, So What Does That Mean For Animal Welfare Laws?
An interesting article citing studies looking into insects' capacity for pain.
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Network Member Amir Ayali of and colleagues published two recent papers on the biomechanics of the #locust ovipositor valves
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci
doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2
A recent write-up in explores ➡️
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Why so many grasshoppers?
Arizona seeing unusually high numbers of gray bird grasshoppers (Schistocerca nitens)
Network Member explains why ➡️
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The Times podcast: Your future meal might be #grasshoppers
bit.ly/3B3vPAh
"Grasshopper hunting has been going on in Mexico for thousands of years, but lately eating them has gained wider acceptance."
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P.h.D student Mehreen Tahir presenting her locust flight poster at ! Amazing #locustscience !
#NSF #EntSoc22
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Congratulations to everyone for representing amazing #locustresearch in your presentations. Here is just a sample from the #locust symposium and beyond!
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BPRI Trainee Vivian Peralta Santana collecting Desert Locust eggs for an experiment. Cool work!
#locust #desertlocust #NSF #BPRI
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Amazing talks were given by the speakers in the phenotypic plasticity symposium at
#entsoc22 #phenotypicplasticity #BPRI
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