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Title: 1990-91 Australian plague locust campaign / compiled by : Kevin Walden, Ken Dean, Frank Smith [and] Peter Coyle. [Variant title:Australian plague locust campaign 1990-91.]
Author: Dean, K. R. (Agriculture Protection Board of Western Australia, Forrestfield) ; Walden, K. J. (Western Australian Dept. of Agriculture, Geraldton) ; Smith, T. F. (Agriculture Protection Board of Western Australia, Perth) ; Coyle, P. H. (Agriculture Protection Board of Western Australia, Perth) ; Western Australia Agriculture Protection Board.
Year: 1991.
Description: 108, [30] p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm.
Subject: Western Australia Agriculture Protection Board. ; Chortoicetes terminifera. ; Western Australia. ; Control programmes. ; Insect control.
Notes: (En)
Type: Book
Abstract: (En)
Spring 1990 saw the development of the largest plague to have ever occurred. In autumn 1990 Agriculture Protection Board surveys showed substantial locust populations in 34 of 57 shires surveyed in the agricultural areas. A computer model forecast that locust populations in some areas would increase 100 fold in spring and the chance of a major locust plague was estimated at greater than 90 percent. Large aggregations developed in the northern and eastern wheatbelt (north of the Great Eastern Highway a
t controlling 70 percent or more of locusts. It was estimated that to achieve an objective of 90 percent control would have cost at least $20 million and 100 percent control was just not feasible. For this reason the Board adopted the objective of min
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