A famous locust organization of the past
In 2005 in Zinder (Niger), I accompanied a PhD student working on the Senegalese grasshopper. I had to visit its field stations located...
An erroneous assumption
In 1992, in Campinas, Brazil, the magazine Globo Ciência comes to report on these scientists trying to understand the locust outbreaks...
Across the Sahara
These pictures were taken in November 1989, during a crossing of the Sahara, from Niamey to Rabat. I had just spent two months in Niger...
My first boss
In February 1991, Jean Roy in front of the famous In N'Gourène tree in Tamesna, Niger (18° 1'971 N - 5° 18'489 E). At that time, I'm in...
Control of a locust invasion
Contrôle d'une invasion de criquets - La scène se passe en l’an 2000, à Madagascar. Je survole un essaim de criquets migrateurs dans un...
Training on sahelian grasshoppers
In 1983, I’m with my first class of students in plant protection within the AGRHYMETRegional Centre in Niamey. Created in 1974, AGRHYMET...
Catching grasshoppers at night
In 1975, I’m building my first light trap to collect grasshoppers at night in an Andropogon gayanus savannah of West Africa. Not...
Far in the deep south
It was in 1970, after nearly one year in Madagascar studying Migratory locusts for my thesis, I’m in a remote place called Bepeha, with...
The famous Desert locust
One of my first shots of the Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål, 1775), in the sand dunes of erg Iguidi, in the Tamesna,...
Looking for locust hopper bands in the cerrado
During the rainy season, on the Chapada dos Parecis, far from any village or fazenda, I walked alone in the cerrado, looking for locust...
