Brown locust control: we’re getting it wrong
“Outbreak and recess phases of the brown locust (Locustana pardalina), which is endemic to Southern Africa, have been recorded for more than 200 years, and efforts have been made to control the pest since the founding of the Locust Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) a century ago.
Surprisingly, after a good start to locust research, when careful observations recorded what happens before outbreaks commence, locust research neglected to do much more along these lines. Instead, scientists
