A field guide for locusts and grasshoppers is a compact, practical reference work designed to help users identify locust and grasshopper species in the field, typically using images, brief descriptions, and simple keys rather than detailed technical explanations. It focuses on diagnostic features, color images, and short notes on behavior, habitat, and distribution to help users recognize what they are seeing, rather than prescribing how to manage or control the pests.

If you like field guides, you may also be interested in identification resources, biology profiles, monographs, and control manuals because they all give practical, easy-to-use information for recognizing things or acting in the field.

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Name	Year published	Resource link	Author
Desert locust field handbook	2020	View	Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International
Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers	2002		United States Department of Agriculture, Robert E. Pfadt
Field guide to grasshoppers of economic importance in Nevada		View	University of Nevada
Field guide to some of the common grasshoppers of the Front Range of Colorado		View	University of Colorado
Key to Wyoming grasshoppers			University of Wyoming, Timothy J. McNary
Montana.gov Orthoptera Field Guides		View
Songs of Insects		View	Lang Elliott, Will Hershberger
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Control			Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations