Minimize collateral damage in locust control

doi:10.1126/science.abh3128

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DOI	10.1126/science.abh3128
	Minimize collateral damage in locust control
	Axel Hochkirch; Dhaneesh Bhaskar
	2021-03-19
发表期刊	Science
出版年	2021
英文摘要	Since 2018, East Africa, Arabia, and southwestern Asia have been facing a severe upsurge of desert locusts, which began when heavy rains allowed them to breed ([ 1 ][1], [ 2 ][2]). The locust swarms originated in the Empty Quarter sand desert of the southern Arabian Peninsula ([ 1 ][1]) and expanded rapidly because conflict regions such as Yemen, Somalia, and parts of Ethiopia were not able to implement sufficient locust control. Locust control measures started too late with intensive use of pesticides in large areas of Kenya, Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and India ([ 1 ][1]). Locust outbreaks of this dimension substantially threaten human livelihoods and must be controlled, but control efforts should aim to minimize collateral damage to the environment. We should plan now to mitigate the damage caused to both humans and the environment by the next locust swarm event. Spraying pesticides in large regions will ultimately affect rare and threatened insect species, with particularly dire consequences in biodiversity hotspots such as the Horn of Africa, the Eastern Afromontane region, the Irano-Anatolian region, and the Western Ghats ([ 3 ][3]). The use of Metarhizium acridum is environmentally friendlier than other insecticides given that it affects only locusts and grasshoppers ([ 4 ][4]), but hundreds of endemic grasshopper species occur in these hotspots ([ 5 ][5], [ 6 ][6]). Many of them are already threatened by habitat destruction caused by human land use ([ 7 ][7]). In South Asia, media coverage of locust swarms also prompted measures against harmless grasshopper species that were mistaken for locusts ([ 8 ][8]). In the future, we must ensure that locust control starts before swarms emerge to prevent their proliferation, their migration, and the extreme control measures that must then be implemented. 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领域	气候变化 ; 资源环境
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