Locusts have caused periodic disasters in the recorded history of humankind. Up to now,
locust disaster is still the biggest threat to the world's agricultural production. The desert …

Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) plagues threaten agricultural production, food security
and the environment across Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. Control methods …

Desert locust plagues can easily cause a regional food crisis and thus affect social stability.
Preventive control of the disaster highlights the early detection of hopper gregarization …

Mechanosensory-cued hatching (MCH) is widespread, diverse, and important for survival in
many animals. Disturbance by predators elicits escape-hatching. Agitation by hosts …

The desert locust Schistocerca gregagia (Forskål, 1775) is one of the most harmful migratory
pests in the world, posing a major threat to agricultural production, livelihoods, and food …

The biology of Patanga japonica (Bolívar, 1898), including seasonal nymphal growth, host
plants, mating, oviposition, hatching, and adult morphology, was studied under outdoor and …

Background The tomato red spider mite, Tetranychus evansi Baker & Pritchard (Acari:
Tetranychidae), is an agricultural pest of solanaceous crops. Although T. evansi is of South …

The eggs of the migratory locust, Locust migratoria, hatch in synchrony from their pod. In this
study, we examined the mechanism controlling hatching synchrony. Two eggs obtained from …

Eggs of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria (Orthoptera: Acrididae), hatch
synchronously when in a pod, but only sporadically when kept separately. Here, we aimed …

As a baseline study of (common name) Locusta migratoria (Orthoptera: Acrididae) to utilize
as a food source, we investigated the developmental characteristics of ovaries and eggs …