Locusts

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 288-297

  Latchininsky, A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Food selection; Grasshopper; Gregarious; Gregarization; Hopper band; Locust; Migration; Outbreak; Pest; Phase; Swarm

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069226404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00053-X     Document Type: Chapter

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