Western Asia

Western Asia
Western Asia is within:
Region:	Asia

Countries in this subregion (18)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia (country), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Species gallery

• Highlighted species for Western Asia
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  Marsh-cricket (Pteronemobius heydenii)
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  Spotted meadow katydid (Conocephalus maculatus)
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  Cone-headed grasshopper (Pyrgomorpha conica)
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  Dark bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
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  Barbarian grasshopper (Calliptamus barbarus)
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  Southern oak bush-cricket (Meconema meridionale)
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  Puissant's green-winged grasshopper (Aiolopus puissanti)
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  Cicada cricket (Svercus palmetorum)
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  Lesser field cricket (Melanogryllus desertus)
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  Sudan plague locust (Aiolopus simulatrix)
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  European field cricket (Gryllus campestris)
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  Italian tree cricket (Oecanthus pellucens)
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  Egyptian locust (Anacridium aegyptium)
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  Mongolian locust (Oedaleus decorus)
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  Hairy scaly cricket (Arachnocephalus vestitus)
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  Senegalese grasshopper (Oedaleus senegalensis)

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
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region	CRC	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Management, Governance, Education, Information Hub	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia
FAO Desert Locust Control Committee	DLCC	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Development, Management, Governance	Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, [[United Arab Em...
FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia	CCA	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Education, Information Hub, Governance	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources of Oman		View	Government	Management	Oman

Resources

Name	Species purview	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
2014 evaluation of field trials data on the efficacy and selectivity of insecticides on locusts and grasshoppers		2014	View	Pesticides, Management, Pesticide management, Chemical control, Information hub	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Calendars 2023 on locust control safety measures		2023		Calendar, Management, Set	Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian	Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia (country)	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) ad hoc, emergency, other meetings		1971		Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Collection	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) committee meetings		1971		Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Bundle	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) survey reports		1971		Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Bundle	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) training and workshops		1971		Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Collection	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Desert locust field handbook		2020	View	Species identification, Management	English	Israel, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Lebanon, Sudan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, South Sudan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Libya, Kenya, India, Oman, Bahrain, Djibouti, Yemen, Uganda, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Tanzania, Syria, Iran, Turkey	Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International
Desert locust invasion responding to a crisis within a crisis		2020	View	Presentation, Outbreaks, Emergency response	English	Yemen, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda
Desert locust master training manual		2003	View	Management, Training manual	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	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
Desert locust upsurge progress report on the response in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen		2020	View	Locust outbreaks, Management, Report, Progress report	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
East Africa desert locust crisis fact sheets		2019, 2020, 2021		Emergency response, Outbreaks, Series	English	Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo	United States Agency for International Development
Estimate the potential impact of DL resources control an outbreak campaign excel file worksheets				Chemical control, Report, Excel files, Series	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO commission for controlling the desert locust in the central region fifty years fighting desert locust		2016	View	International development, Community development, Environmental assessment, Decision making	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO desert locust biology and behaviour guidelines		2001		Behavior, Biology, Training manual, Species identification, Set	English, French, Arabic, Somali	Southern Asia, Western Asia	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 desert locust campaign organization and execution guidelines		2001		Campaign organization, Training manual, Set	English, French, Arabic	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO desert locust guidelines appendixes		2001		Management, Training manual, Set, Apendix	English, French, Arabic	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO desert locust guidelines control		2001		Training manual, Environmental assessment, Chemical control, Set	English, French, Arabic, Somali, Spanish	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO desert locust guidelines safety and environmental precautions		2001		Training manual, Environmental assessment, Safety guidelines, Set	English, French, Arabic	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO desert locust information and forecasting guidelines		2001		Forecasting, Training manual, Set	English, French, Arabic	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO desert locust survey guidelines		2001		Survey, Training manual, Set	English, French, Arabic, Somali, Spanish	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO eLocust information videos				App, Video, Bundle, Management, Control, Instructional video	English	Southern Asia, Western Asia	FAO Desert Locust Information Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO emergencies and resilience				Emergency response, Information hub	English	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Locust Data Explorer				Data, Outbreaks, Locust outbreaks, Interface, Dashboard, Statistics, Geographic information, Monitoring, Spacial patterns, Information hub	English	Southern Asia, Western Asia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Locust Hub				Distribution, Earth observation, Weather, Infographic, Information hub, Locust outbreaks, Locusts, Map, Monitoring, Soil science, Ecology, Outbreaks, Infestations	English	Southern Asia, Western Asia	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’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
Field efficacy trials with the entomopathogen Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum (Green Muscle) against the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) and monitoring of it's operational use		2007	View	Advice, Metarhizium acridum	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen Desert locust crisis appeal		2020	View	Appeal, Emergency appeal	English	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Guide for identifying desert locust			View	Locusts, Biology, General locust education	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Guidelines for developing research proposals			View	Locusts, Research, Research proposal, Guide	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Italian Locust Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Morphology, Ecology, Distribution, Population Management		2022	View	Identification, Distribution, Ecology, Biology, Population dynamics, Behavior, Morphology	Russian	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, China, Algeria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, Cyprus, Turkey, Pakistan	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Michael Sergeev, Alexandre Latchininsky, M.K. Childebaev, I.A. Vankova, F.A. Gapparov, V.E. Kambulin, E.O. Kokanova, L.B. Pshenitsyna, I.I. Temreshev, M.E. Chernyakhovsky, N.N. Sobolev, V.V. Molodtsov
Locusts have caused problems for quite some time			View	Locusts, Biology, Chemical control, Mechanical control, Spraying, Data analysis	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Metarhizium anisopliae reference list of papers			View	Biological control, Infestations, Information hub	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Migratory locust info poster		2024	View	Biology, Ecology, Monitoring, Species identification, Behavior, Population dynamics, Set	Azerbaijani, English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Moroccan locust info poster		2021	View	Biology, Ecology, Monitoring, Species identification, Behavior, Population dynamics, Set	Azerbaijani, English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Operational-scale field trial with Green Muscle		2005	View	Agriculture, Chemical control, Metarhizium acridum, Trial, Biocontrol, Management	English	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Practical Guidelines on Pesticide Risk Reduction for Locust Control in CCA		2019		Pesticides, Pesticide management, Management, Set	English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Dari, Tajik, Uzbek, Azerbaijani	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Harold Van der Valk
Practical guidelines on the three locust pests in Caucasus and Central Asia		2019		Management, Biology, Set, Species identification	Russian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Progress report on the response in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen		2021		Report, Advisory note, Forecasting, Monitoring, Locust outbreaks, Locusts, Outbreaks, Emergency response, Early warning, Livelihoods, Aerial control operations, Summary, Food security, Chemical control, Biological control, Community development, Collective movement, After action review, Agriculture, Crop health, Economics, Infographic, Advice, Public health, Pesticide management, Progress report, Set	English	Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya	United States Agency for International Development

Highlighted media coverage

Name	Author	Language	Species purview	Substance	Resource link	Year published
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) promotional materials	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	English		Promotional material
Huge swarm of locusts brings traffic to a standstill in Bahrain after spreading across Saudi Arabia because of strong winds		English		News article		2020
Swarms of locusts invade Bahrain		English		News article		2020

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