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THE fourth report of the Committee on Locust A Control of the Economic Advisory Council* contains a survey of investigations carried out in 1991, and a programme of work for 1932–33. Since the presentation of the previous report of the Committee, in 1930, invasions by the desert locust (Schistocera gregaria Forsk.) have continued in almost all the countries in Africa and western Asia that were previously affected. Further, a new and even more serious menace to agriculture in tropical Africa has presented itself in the appearance of great swarms of two other species of locusts, namely, the tropical migratory locust (Locusta migratorioides R. and F.) and the red locust (Nomadacris septem/asciata Serv.).
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IMMS, A. The Locust Problem. Nature 130, 854–855 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130854b0
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