Australia and New Zealand
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| Region: | Oceania |
Countries in this subregion (5)
Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, New Zealand, Norfolk Island
Species gallery
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Organizations
Locusts and grasshoppers are typically managed through a national plant protection system led by a country’s plant protection organization, ministry of agriculture, or equivalent biosecurity authority. They are often supported by specialized pest control branches, natural resource agencies, and regional bodies when outbreaks cross borders. These agencies are usually the first point of contact for surveillance, reporting, permits, quarantine decisions, and control operations. If the country belongs to one of the FAO locust commissions, those bodies provide a regional framework for early warning, field surveillance, information sharing, and coordinated response, helping countries align monitoring, contingency planning, and control actions across borders.
| Organization name | Acronym | Website | Type | Focus | Geographic purview |
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| Australian Plague Locust Commission | APLC | View | Government | Management, Research, Governance | Australia |
| Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development | DPI WA | View | Government | Management | Australia |
| Department of Primary Industries and Regions | PIRSA | View | Government | Management, Development, Information Hub | Australia |
| New South Wales Department of Primary Industries | NSW DPI | View | Government | Education, Management | Australia |
| New South Wales Local Land Services | NSW LLS | View | Government | Management | Australia |
| Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | QLD DPI | View | Government | Management | Australia |
| Queensland Department of Natural Resources | DNR | View | Government | Governance, Management, Monitoring, Education | Australia |
Resources
| Name | Species purview | Year published | Resource link | Descriptive keyword | Language | Geographic purview | Author |
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| Agriculture Victoria Australian plague locust identification, biology and behaviour | 2022 | View | Species identification, Biology, Behavior, Ecology, Grasshopper development, Life cycle, Photos | English | Australia | ||
| Agriculture Victoria locust and grasshopper online reporting form | Report, Form, Survey | English | Australia | ||||
| APLC locust and grasshopper identification guide | Management, Species identification | English | Australia | Australian Plague Locust Commission | |||
| Australian plague locust | 2023 | View | Grasshopper development, Life cycle, estimation of grasshopper densities, Chemical control, Aerial control operations, Economics, Species identification, Behavior, Outbreaks, Weather | English | Australia | ||
| Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera) | 2006 | View | Agriculture, Behavior, Biology, Grasshoppers, Insect behavior | English | Australia | Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development | |
| Australian Plague Locust Commission current locust situation | Locusts, Locust outbreaks, Outbreaks, Infestations, Distribution, Monitoring, Forecasting, Information hub, Weather, Rainfall | English | Australia | Australian Plague Locust Commission | |||
| Australian Plague Locust Commission locust bulletin | Locusts, Monitoring, Migration, Forecasting, Advisory note, Weather, Rainfall, Behavior, Survey, Distribution, Map, Series | English | Australia | Australian Plague Locust Commission | |||
| Australian plague locust landholder control strategies for NSW | View | Management | English | Australia | Government of New South Wales | ||
| Australian plague locust online learning module | 2022 | View | Species identification, Biology, Behavior, Management | English | Australia | ||
| Desert locust technical series | History, Management, Set | English, French, Arabic | Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Mauritania, Madagascar, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Senegal, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Niger, Mali | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |||
| How to identify locusts | 2021 | View | Locusts, Species identification, Photos, estimation of grasshopper densities | English | Australia | ||
| Locusts in Queensland | 2003 | View | Taxonomy, History, Distribution, Biology, Ecology, Management | English | Australia | ||
| Locusts of Australia | 2020 | View | Management, Species identification | English | Australia | Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | |
| Managing locusts in Queensland | 2022 | View | Pesticides, Grasshoppers, Outbreaks, Infestations, Control, Nymphs, Life cycle, Biology, Grasshopper development, Weather, Early warning, Species identification, Identification | English | Australia | ||
| Queensland locust sightings form | 2025 | Report, Outbreaks, Locust outbreaks, Monitoring, Survey | English | Australia | Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | ||
| Short-term population forecasting of the Australian Plague Locust (Chortoicetes terminifera) based on machine-learning algorithms | 2025 | View | Forecasting, Modeling | English | Australia | Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, Australian Plague Locust Commission, Edward Deveson, Allan Spessa, John Baumgartner, James Camac | |
| Spraying Locusts with Metarhizium | View | Metarhizium acridum, Biopesticide | English | Australia | New South Wales Department of Primary Industries | ||
| Standard operating procedure (SOP) locust management in Queensland | 2022 | View | Map, Infestations, Communication resource, Management, Monitoring, Early warning, Control, Nymphs, SOP | English | Australia | Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries |
Highlighted media coverage
| Name | Author | Language | Species purview | Substance | Resource link | Year published |
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| Queensland farmers hit by locust plague – but spiders may be their unexpected salvation | English | News article | 2025 |
