Oceania
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Subregions in this region (4)
Australia and New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Countries in this region (28)
American Samoa, Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (country), Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna
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 | |
| 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 | ||
| BioAcoustica | View | Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Information hub | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | Edward Baker, S. D. Rycroft, Jon Hill, Vincent S. Smith | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |||
| Edible insects | 2013 | View | Edible insects | English | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania | 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 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 | ||
| HopperLink | 2021 | View | Information hub, Networking, Management, Social science, Natural sciences, Governance, Technology | Africa, Americas, Oceania, Asia, Europe | Global Locust Initiative | ||
| How to identify locusts | 2021 | View | Locusts, Species identification, Photos, estimation of grasshopper densities | English | Australia | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
| NSF Coupled Natural Human Systems Living with Locusts project summary | 2021 | Summary, Set, Program, Project report | English, Spanish, French | Senegal, Australia, China, United States | Australian Plague Locust Commission, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Inner Mongolia Agriculture University, New South Wales Local Land Services, Directorate of Plant Protection, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney | ||
| 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 | |||
| Queensland locust sightings form | 2025 | Report, Outbreaks, Locust outbreaks, Monitoring, Survey | English | Queensland | Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| USAID Transboundary Outbreak Pest ETOP bulletins | Information hub, Series | English | Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean | United States Agency for International Development | |||
| 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 |
