Credibility of an IPM Approach for Locust and Grasshopper Control: The Australian Example*

Autor:	David M. Hunter
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Integrated pest management animal structures biology business.industry Agroforestry Ecology Biological pest control Pest control biology.organism_classification Arid Agriculture Insect Science Credibility business Grasshopper Locust
Zdroj:	Journal of Orthoptera Research. 19:133-137
ISSN:	1937-2426 1082-6467
Popis:	In Australia, locusts are controlled using an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) system that aims to find and rapidly treat most gregarious locust populations. Many outbreaks have significant breeding in the arid interior of Australia during summer and treatments begin in the interior, to keep locust invasions of the agricultural zone to manageable levels. This preventive control program relies on IPM: moderately accurate forecasting and rapid response survey, followed by treatments of bands and swarms with a range of proven readily available products. IPM begins with a Decision Support System that uses data on weather and previous locust distributions to model locust development and possible migrations, so as to provide moderately accurate forecasts as to when and where locusts are likely to be present. When locusts are reported or forecast as likely to be in a region, surveys are conducted to locate any infestations and if bands or swarms are found, they are rapidly treated using a variety of tec...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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