The department recommends landholders report locust activity and undertake early control measures to prevent subsequent egg-laying. Bertie Hennecke, from the Australian Plague Locust Commission (APLC) ...

Bertie Hennecke, chair of the Australian Plague Locust Commission (APLC), said that the grasshopper population could increase to plague proportions if conditions like good rain and healthy ...

Swarms of what appear to be migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria) have been observed in areas of Central West Queensland.According to the Australian ...

and one is even native — the Australian plague locust. The country has been steadily subject to many locust outbreaks, with eight major plagues since 1930, according to the Department of ...

Millions of Australian plague locusts swarm in the sky in 2007. CSIRO via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0 DEED The team of researchers mathematically modeled how precipitation events ...

The locusts Sword refers to are members of the genus Schistocerca and others that inflict mass devastation over large parts of Africa, Australia, Asia, and Central and South America causing untold ...

For example, there are over 700 species of locusts — and other grasshoppers — living in Australia alone. All species of locusts are short-horned grasshoppers that sometimes form large ...

The department recommends landholders report locust activity and undertake early control measures to prevent subsequent egg-laying. Bertie Hennecke, from the Australian Plague Locust Commission ...