Invasion de mouches à Lavanono
Madagascar 1971. J'effectue des recherches sur le criquet migrateur à la pointe extrême sud de la Grande Ile. Ma "station de recherche" -...
Une petite rivière bucolique
1969 Septembre. Je suis depuis 2 jours à Madagascar. Mon premier séjour outre-mer après mes études d'entomologie à la faculté de...
My locust swarm
May 1999. I'm coming back on an old article to give more details. I arrived in Madagascar sent by FAO (Food and agriculture Organization...
Saved by donuts
2007, in Betioky-Sud, in the main street near the anti-locust center, I enjoyed a coffee and some donuts. In this small remote city of...
Hotel Mahasoa
2005 I'm in the courtyard of the hotel Mahasoa (pronounced "ma-a-chou-a") in Betioky, in the far south of Madagascar, 160 km from Tulear...
Revolt in the deep south
The "Trano mena", the Red House, headquarter of the Centre for locust control, in Betioky, in the extreme south of Madagascar. It’s where...
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...
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...
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...
