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Desert Locust Bulletin No. 550, Aug 2024
SUMMER BREEDING EXPECTED 
 
The Desert Locust situation was calm during July. More locusts were seen moving south along the northern Nile Valley of Sudan where locusts had arrived from southern Egypt as spring breeding was fi nished. During the summer, rainfall began in June in some areas in the northern Sahel between Mauritania to western Eritrea, followed by more rain in July. Scattered adults and a few small groups have probably moved further south in the interior near eastern Sudan, western Darfur, and northeast Chad. The fi rst generation of summer breeding in these areas probably started after mid-July with laying. The forecast indicates that hatching and hoppers are expected in August, followed by new immature adults from about mid-September onwards. Similarly, a generation of breeding will also occur in southern and central Mauritania, northeast Mali, Niger, and western Chad of West Africa but numbers will be more limited. In the Arabian Peninsula, above-normal rain is expected in August along the Yemen interior and perhaps parts of the Red Sea coast where there will be a generation of breeding. For the Indo-Pakistan border, good rains fell in July and should continue during August where one generation of limited breeding will occur and numbers are not expected to increase significantly.

CRC - 02, Aug 2024
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