Alternative treatments of gregarious locusts
Time
Monday, 7. December 2020
11:45 - 12:45
Location
online
Organizer
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
Speaker:
Manfred Hartbauer, University of Graz
This event is part of an event series „This event is part of CASCB Seminar Series“.
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Manfred Hartbauer is an Associate Professor at the Institue of Zoology at Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria. He is strongly interested in the evolution of intraspecific cooperation in non-social insects, such as chorusing katydids and collectively defending aphids. He is also interested in the neuronal basis of behavior in the context of female mate choice, vision-based collision avoidance and night vision.
Alternative treatments of gregarious locusts
In my talk, I will explain the problems caused by recent gregarious locust outbreaks in East Africa and Pakistan. Then I will review locust pest management that is either based on chemicals or alternatives, such as insectivorous fungi. In the third part of my talk I will present a novel linseed-oil based pesticide that is harmless for the people operating in the field and enables dead locusts to be used for the animal food industry. Finally, I will describe potential swarm disruptive effects of oleic acid and other necromones contained in linseed oil.
