This document features practical guidelines in English to improve locust and grasshopper monitoring in Caucasus and Central Asia. The publication promotes year-round surveillance, early detection, standardized data collection, and regional cooperation to help countries act before outbreaks spread and damage crops and pasturelands. It also highlights the use of tools like GPS, digital reporting systems, drones, and remote sensing, while emphasizing economic thresholds to guide timely, targeted control and reduce unnecessary pesticide use. Click here to see more guidelines on HopperWiki
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This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the grasshoppers of New Mexico, covering their morphology, life cycles, behavior, population dynamics, and distribution. It explores historical and ecological aspects of grasshopper management, including biological and chemical control methods, population estimation, and cooperative control programs. The book also includes identification keys for various grasshopper families and subfamilies, along with an annotated species list, making it a valuable resource for researchers, land managers, and entomologists. Click here to see more identification resources
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