Research

• Projects assembly, support, watch, realization.

Documentation supplements on locusts

• General acridology: taxonomy, morphology, anatomy, physiology, biology, ecology, ethology, population dynamics, phase polymorphism and importance of locust plague.
• Data sheets about main pests.
• Diaporamas about mains species.
• Main links in acridology.

http://locust.cirad.fr  (mainly in French)

Online locust literature

• A direct access with significant scientific publications on locusts.
• More than 250 full-text articles (around 4500 pages).
• Many other bibliographical references.

http://ispi-lit.cirad.fr

Popularization, training and information

The unit is given the responsability to train and inform everyone concerned with locust control.

• Seminars, classes, theorical and practical training sessions, in France or abroad,
• Books and other scientific or popularization documents, on locust biology and ecology or application techniques and control strategies.

To know more, please see the Formations  page.

Services

• Whole world assessment ;
• Control campains (organization and coordination) ;
• Treatement equipments (expertise, use optimization), etc.

An interactive database on pest locusts

• Several thousands references on pests locusts.
• Summaries of all documents and many full-text articles.
• Many pictures…
• Available on a CD-ROM produced with ISPI's collaboration (International Society for Pest Information).

More information is available on the project's page "Information on pest locusts " .
Online order at [ http://www.pestinfo.org/cds.htm  ]

A considerable iconography

• Collected in a photographic database on locusts.
• Pictures and documents on request.