Long Zhang's research while affiliated with Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other places

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Desert locust is an important pest to agriculture. In 2019–2020, a major upsurge originated in the southern Arabian Peninsula and gradually spread to east Africa, then to south-west Asia, as far as Pakistan and India, even reaching Nepal, resulting in major agricultural losses. For the first time, a few swarms entered southern Tibet. Using field ob...
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Effective locust and grasshopper control is crucial as locust invasions have seriously threatened crops and food security since ancient times. However, the preponderance of chemical insecticides, effective and widely used today, is increasingly criticized as a result of their adverse effects on human health and the environment. Alternative biologic...
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This encyclopedia covers the main Orthoptera species–locusts, grasshoppers and crickets–considered as important pests of crops and pasture worldwide. Some of these species are invasive at a continental scale. Their control is sometime critical to food security worldwide, requiring governmental or international involvement. This book–illustrated wit...
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Locusts and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) are among the most dangerous agricultural pests. Their control is critical to food security worldwide and often requires governmental or international involvement. Although acridid outbreaks are now better controlled and often shorter in duration and reduced in extent, large outbreaks, often promote...
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Locusts and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) are among the most dangerous agricultural pests. Their control is critical to food security worldwide and often requires governmental or international involvement. Although locust and grasshopper outbreaks are now better controlled and often shorter in duration and reduced in extent, large outbreaks...
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Locusts and grasshoppers are major economic pests in China and are controlled by a strategy of preventive management where about 1.5 million ha are treated each year. The preventive management system aims to keep locusts and grasshoppers at lower densities, so that the dense swarms seen in the past are no longer common and crop and pasture damage m...

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... Topography also directly limits the migration paths of desert locusts. The presence of desert locusts was observed along the western side of the Himalayas, indicating that the mountains might be a natural barrier to desert locust migration [12]. Therefore, identifying suitable routes for desert locust migration and carefully monitoring these routes is essential for the preventive control of desert locusts. ...
... Collectively, our findings would significantly contribute to improving chemical control approaches, especially the development of nanoparticles, which could be functionalized to target the locusts' reproductive system for further application in the field (Zhang and Lecoq, 2021). Accordingly, this will enable the launch of an effective and safe pesticide for hampering the growth of targeted species without harming the environment. ...
... For thousands of years, people have been confronted with devastating locust and grasshopper outbreaks. In many tropical regions, only a few of the roughly 6700 valid Acrididae species represent the greatest threat to food security, especially those in Africa (Le Gall et al., 2019;Lecoq and Zhang, 2019;Peng et al., 2020;Song, 2011). Locusts and outbreak of grasshoppers are serious agricultural pests and can severely disrupt food crops in farming systems and the regional economy. ...
... Doğru haşere ilaçlarının kullanılarak etkili bir mücadele yapılabilmesi için belirli düzeyde bir uzman eğitimi gerekmektedir. Ayrıca kimyasal haşere ilaçlarının kapsamlı kullanımı zararlı çevresel etkilere neden olmaktadır [3]. Bahsedilen nedenlerden ötürü tarımsal haşerelerin erken ve doğru tespiti, zararlılarla mücadele ve gıda güvenliğinin sağlanmasında kritik öneme sahiptir. ...
... Locust and grasshopper outbreaks are highly problematic for agriculture (Brader et al., 2006;Latchininsky, 2013;Millist 2011;Wright, 1986;Zhang & Hunter, 2017), although satellite-based locust monitoring technologies (Cressman, 2013;Latchininsky, 2013;Latchininsky et al., 2016;Propastin, 2013), modern forecast methods (Krall et al. 1997), and modern locust control (Lecoq, 2001;Zhang et al., 2019;Zhang & Hunter, 2017) are available in many countries suffering from this ancient plague. Effective locust control is still challenging and involves researchers (Lecoq & Cease, 2022a), companies, local locust control organizations, and governments, of which some receive support from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) belonging to the United Nations Organization (UNO). ...
... Locust and grasshopper outbreaks are highly problematic for agriculture (Brader et al., 2006;Latchininsky, 2013;Millist 2011;Wright, 1986;Zhang & Hunter, 2017), although satellite-based locust monitoring technologies (Cressman, 2013;Latchininsky, 2013;Latchininsky et al., 2016;Propastin, 2013), modern forecast methods (Krall et al. 1997), and modern locust control (Lecoq, 2001;Zhang et al., 2019;Zhang & Hunter, 2017) are available in many countries suffering from this ancient plague. Effective locust control is still challenging and involves researchers (Lecoq & Cease, 2022a), companies, local locust control organizations, and governments, of which some receive support from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) belonging to the United Nations Organization (UNO). ...