Europe
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Subregions in this region (4)
Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Western Europe
Countries in this region (49)
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City, Åland Islands
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.
Resources
| Name | Species purview | Year published | Resource link | Descriptive keyword | Language | Geographic purview | Author |
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| 2008 FAO High-level conference on world food security | 2008 | View | Food security | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| 2021 evaluation of field trials data on the efficacy and selectivity of insecticides on locusts and grasshoppers | 2021 | View | Report, Pesticides, Pesticide management, Management, Monitoring, Public health, Field evaluation | English | Africa, Europe, Asia, Americas, Oceania | Locust Pesticide Referee Group, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| AgroAtlas Pests | Pests, Information hub | English | Russia | ||||
| BioAcoustica | View | Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Information hub | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Edward Baker, S. D. Rycroft, Jon Hill, Vincent S. Smith | ||
| Biolib.cz Orthoptera | View | Photos, Taxonomy, Information hub | English | Europe | |||
| Biopesticides: operational use against locusts | 2018 | View | Video, Tutorial, Biological control, Biopesticide, Set, Instructional video | Arabic, English, French, Russian | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| CABI Green Muscle education videos | 2021 | Video, Biological control, Biopesticide, Metarhizium acridum, Storage, Dosage, Application, PPE and cleaning, Set, Instructional video | Arabic, French, Russian, English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International | ||
| CIRAD pest locust website | View | History, Archive, Species identification, Information hub | French, English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development | ||
| Crop prospects and food situation | 2020 | View | Outbreaks, Food security | English | Northern America, Latin America and the Caribbean | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Edible insects | 2013 | View | Edible insects | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| FAO Desert Locust Bulletin | Forecasting, Emergency alerts, Survey, Regional cooperation | English, Arabic, French | Southern Asia, Western Asia | FAO Desert Locust Information Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |||
| FAO Desert Locust Bulletin Archives | Forecasting, Emergency alerts, Survey, Regional cooperation | English, Arabic, French | Southern Asia, Western Asia | FAO Desert Locust Information Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |||
| FAO locust handbook identification key | View | Species identification, Locusts | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | FAO Desert Locust Information Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| FAO Locust Watch Desert Locust | Forecasting, Information hub, Emergency alerts | English, Arabic, French | Southern Asia, Western Asia | FAO Desert Locust Information Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |||
| FAO Plant Production and Protection Newsletter | View | Newsletter, Information hub | English | South America | FAO Plant Production and Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| FAO’s technical series on locust management in the Caucasus and Central Asia | 2026 | Capacity building, Survey, Forecasting, Monitoring, Preparedness, Regional cooperation, Transboundary pests, Locust outbreaks, Management, Series, Pesticide management, Pesticides | English | Georgia (country), Azerbaijan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Alexandre Latchininsky | ||
| Glossary on Desert Locust | 2009 | View | Locusts, Grasshoppers, Sustainability science, Glossary | Arabic, English | Italy | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| HopperLink | 2021 | View | Information hub, Networking, Management, Social science, Natural sciences, Governance, Technology | Africa, Americas, Oceania, Asia, Europe | Global Locust Initiative | ||
| How to manage a pesticide warehouse | 2018 | View | Video, Tutorial, Pesticide storage, Set, Instructional video | Arabic, English, French, Russian | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| How to properly store pesticides | 2018 | View | Video, Overview, Advocacy, Pesticide storage, Set, Tutorial, Instructional video | Arabic, English, French, Russian | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management | 2024 | View | Pesticides, Pesticide management, Aerial control operations | English | Europe, Oceania, Asia, Americas, Africa | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Dr Jane Bonds | |
| IUCN European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets | 2016 | View | Conservation | English | Europe | ||
| Locust control with biopesticides | 2018 | View | Video, Advocacy, Biological control, Biopesticide, Set, Promotional documents, Promotional video | Arabic, French, Russian, English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Locust Literature | View | Archive, Information hub | French, English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development | ||
| Locust pesticide referee group reports | Pesticides, Management, Pesticide management, Bundle, Environmental assessment, Application guidelines, Insecticide selection, Meeting, Meeting minutes | English, French, Arabic, Russian | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Locust Pesticide Referee Group | |||
| Metaleptea | View | Newsletter, Information hub | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | The Orthopterists' Society | ||
| NorthWest Africa Grasshoppers and locusts | View | Species identification, Biology | English, French | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | |||
| Nymphal Growth in Schistocerca | 2024 | View | Photos, Timelapse, Community development, Biology, Nymphs, Growth, Species identification | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute | |
| Orthoptera Species File | Species identification, Biology, Information hub, Taxonomy, Database, Digital tools, Natural sciences | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Maria Marta Cigliano | |||
| Rearing and Breeding Locusts in the Laboratory | 1966 | View | SOP, Rearing, Laboratory, Locusts | English | Europe, Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania | Anti-Locust Research Centre, Philip Hunter-Jones | |
| Russian Bibliography on Orthopteroid Insects | View | Bibliography, Grasshoppers, Research | Russian | Russia | FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia | ||
| Scientific review of the impact of climate change on plant pests | 2021 | View | Climate change | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Control | Ground survey, SOP, Ground cover, Aerial survey, Control, Pesticide management, Biopesticide, Ground control, Radio, communication, Bundle | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |||
| Sustainable use and conservation of microbial and invertebrate biological control agents and microbial biostimulants | 2023 | View | Management, Biological control, Biopesticide | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International | |
| Ultra-Low Volume (ULV) spraying for locust control | 2018 | View | Video, Spraying, Set, Promotional documents, Promotional video | Arabic, English, French, Russian | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| UN University desert locust outbreak technical report | 2021 | View | Report, Agriculture, Biological control, Biopesticide, Chemical control, Climate change, Crop health, Decision making, Ecology, Economics, Emergency response, Environmental assessment, Environmental science, Food security, Governance, Insect behavior, Integrated pest management, International development, Locust outbreaks, Locusts, Management, Migration, Monitoring, Overview, Policy, Outbreaks, Infestations, Advice, Public health, Pesticide management | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | United Nations University, United Nations | |
| Weather and Desert Locusts | 2016 | View | Weather, Locusts, Life cycle, Biological control, Map, Meteorology, Glossary, Rainfall, Climate change | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| White/Wiphala paper on Indigenous Peoples Food Systems English | 2021 | View | Indigenous knowledge, White paper, Set | English, Spanish, French | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Highlighted media coverage
Projects
| Name | Acronym | Image | Status | Project leads | Related organization |
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| ChirpScan | Active |