Locust Watch
Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia
A national trial using biopesticide Metarhizium acridum was carried out against Italian locust in June...
His Excellency Qurbon Hakimzoda, Minister of Agriculture of Tajikistan, visited the Swiss Center for Locust...
The Turkmen Human Health and Environmental Monitoring Team benefited from an on-the-job training, delivered by...
Three experts from Turkmenistan visited Tajikistan during the ongoing anti-locust campaign, from 26 to 31...
A locust cross-border survey was conducted for the first time between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, on...

Locusts and grasshoppers are serious threats for agriculture in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA). Three locust pests, the Italian (CIT), the Moroccan (DMA) and the Migratory (LMI) locusts, jeopardize food security and livelihoods in both regions as well as in adjacent areas of northern Afghanistan and southern Russian Federation. Over 25 million hectares of cultivated areas are potentially at risk.

Locusts have a high capacity to multiply, form groups, migrate over relatively large distances (they can fly up to 100 km per day) and settle and breed in various habitats. These capacities enhance their pest status at regional level. Locust are becoming even more dangerous in the context of exceptional weather events associated with climate change, due to their very high capacity to take advantage of new situations; as an indicator, the locust situation has deteriorated with recurrent droughts since the beginning of the 21st century.

Current Locust Situation

General Situation during May 2025 Forecast for June 2025
Moroccan locust (DMA) hopper development was completed, mass fledging and mating had started in all Central Asia (CA) by the end of the reporting period, as well as egg-laying in the southern areas. DMA...

Caucasus and Central Asia - Countries

Afghanistan

Armenia

Azerbaijan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Georgia

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Russian Federation

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uzbekistan