Locust Watch
Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia

N.5: July 2010

Published: 01/07/2010

The situation was becoming calm in all CCA countries with locust life cycles about to be completed. Areas treated in July were less than 4% of those treated in June, i.e. a bit more than 50,000 hectares against DMA (185,000 ha in June) and less than 15,000 ha against CIT (1,150 million ha during the previous month). DMA egg-laying came to an end and adult numbers started declining. CIT hopper development continued in Armenia but fledging started or continued in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and egg-laying started in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. LMI hopper development continued in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where the situation remained unclear. So far during this campaign, slightly less than 3 million hectares have been treated.