{"id":87239,"date":"2020-05-09T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15302"},"modified":"2020-05-09T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:15:42","slug":"a-new-concern-locusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-new-concern-locusts\/","title":{"rendered":"A new concern: locusts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Scientists at the Locust Warning Organisation(LWO) have observed groups of Desert Locusts in districts of Rajasthan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Locusts:<\/strong>They are a group of short-horned grasshoppers that multiply in numbers as they migrate long distances in destructive swarms.<\/li><li><strong>Types: <\/strong>Four species of locusts are found in India: Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria), Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), Bombay Locust (Nomadacris succincta) and Tree locust (Anacridium sp.).Desert locust is regarded as the most destructive pest in India.<\/li><li><strong>Hotspots:<\/strong>The Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO) has identified three hotspots of threatening locust activity: Horn of Africa, the Red Sea area and southwest Asia.<\/li><li><strong>Threat:<\/strong> Locusts are polyphagous, i.e. they can feed on a wide variety of crops. Secondly, they have an ability to multiply rapidly as a single female desert locust lays 60-80 eggs thrice during its roughly 90-day life cycle.<\/li><li><strong>Regulation: <\/strong>Locust Warning Organisation(LWO), Directorate of Plant Protection Quarantine and Storage, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare is responsible for monitoring, survey and control of Desert Locust mainly in the States of Rajasthan and Gujarat.<\/li><li><strong>Locust Control and Research scheme: <\/strong>It is implemented by Locust Warning Organisation(LWO) with the aim of protection of standing crops and other green vegetation from Desert locust.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Scientists at the Locust Warning Organisation(LWO) have observed groups of Desert Locusts in districts of Rajasthan.&nbsp; Facts: Locusts:They are a group of short-horned grasshoppers that multiply in numbers as they migrate long distances in destructive swarms. Types: Four species of locusts are found in India: Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria), Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), Bombay Locust&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-new-concern-locusts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new concern: locusts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4890],"class_list":["post-87239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-locusts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704720219},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}