The Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) is a transboundary region where locusts are a major agricultural concern because outbreaks can spread across borders and threaten large areas of crops and pasture. This region includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Russia. There are three key locust species, the Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus), which is the most widespread; the Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus), predominantly found in the southern parts of the region; and the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), which, though less common, can cause significant damage when it appears.

See the FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia for more information.

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Highlighted species for Caucasus and Central Asia
Lesser field cricket (Melanogryllus desertus)
Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus)

Resources

Name	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
Calendars 2023 on locust control safety measures	2023		Calendar, Management, Set	Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian	Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia (country)	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Desert locust technical series			History, Management, Set	English, French, Arabic	Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Mauritania, Madagascar, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Senegal, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Niger, Mali	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Dociostaurus maroccanus Monograph	2023	View	Morphology, Distribution, Ecology, Population dynamics, Management, Identification	Russian	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Russia, Georgia (country), Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Italy	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Locust Watch bulletin for locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia		View	Forecasting, Information hub, Emergency alerts, Bundle	English	Afghanistan, Georgia (country), Russia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Locust Watch Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) meeting, research, workshop, survey report collection	2022		Report, Monitoring, Public health, Forecasting, Management, Workshop, Collection	English	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO’s technical series on locust management in the Caucasus and Central Asia	2026		Capacity building, Survey, Forecasting, Monitoring, Preparedness, Regional cooperation, Transboundary pests, Locust outbreaks, Management, Series, Pesticide management, Pesticides	English	Georgia (country), Azerbaijan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Alexandre Latchininsky
Improving national and regional locust management in Caucasus and Central Asia	2015	View	Locust outbreaks, Climate change, Monitoring, Early warning, Public health, Geographic Information System (GIS), Management	English	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia (country)	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Italian Locust Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Morphology, Ecology, Distribution, Population Management	2022	View	Identification, Distribution, Ecology, Biology, Population dynamics, Behavior, Morphology	Russian	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, China, Algeria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, Cyprus, Turkey, Pakistan	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Michael Sergeev, Alexandre Latchininsky, M.K. Childebaev, I.A. Vankova, F.A. Gapparov, V.E. Kambulin, E.O. Kokanova, L.B. Pshenitsyna, I.I. Temreshev, M.E. Chernyakhovsky, N.N. Sobolev, V.V. Molodtsov
Migratory locust info poster	2024	View	Biology, Ecology, Monitoring, Species identification, Behavior, Population dynamics, Set	Azerbaijani, English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Moroccan locust info poster	2021	View	Biology, Ecology, Monitoring, Species identification, Behavior, Population dynamics, Set	Azerbaijani, English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Practical Guidelines on Pesticide Risk Reduction for Locust Control in CCA	2019		Pesticides, Pesticide management, Management, Set	English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Dari, Tajik, Uzbek, Azerbaijani	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Harold Van der Valk
Practical guidelines on the three locust pests in Caucasus and Central Asia	2019		Management, Biology, Set, Species identification	Russian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations