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...
A Nambikwara woman toasting locusts
The locust Rhammatocerus schistocercoides Rehn, 1906 is a serious pest locust in Brazil (Mato Grosso, Rondonia) and Colombia. In Brazil,...
Looking for Desert locust in the Sahara
February 1991, using one of my first GPS in Northern Niger, not far from In Abangharit, in the Tamesna area. During a field trip to study...
A Migratory locust swarm
Front of a swarm of Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria Linné) 2x5 km size. Horombe plateau, Madagascar, 1999. I was using an helicopter...
