ISPI databases of literature on locusts and short-horned grasshoppers
Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (desert locust)
(family Acrididae)
in Northern Africa, the Sahel, Near East and South-West Asia; polyphagous, can multiply rapidly in the Desert after rains and forms swarms up to hundreds of square kilometers in size; these cause great destruction when they reach crops;
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