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THE discovery of ‘outbreak areas’ of several species of locusts, and the influence of these discoveries on the setting up and organization of preventive control, have been described by Uvarov1. For the African migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides (R. and F.), the outbreak area, first indicated by Lean2, was defined in detail at the Fifth International Anti-Locust Conference3 in 1938. It has since been assumed that outbreaks of this species originate in this circumscribed area in which both population-increases and phase-transformation occur. On the basis of this information, a permanent International Preventive Control Organization was formed4.
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DAVEY, J. Possibility of Movements of the African Migratory Locust in the Solitary Phase and the Dynamics of its Outbreaks. Nature 172, 720–721 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172720a0
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