Version 1
: Received: 30 January 2023 / Approved: 2 February 2023 / Online: 2 February 2023 (04:35:05 CET)
How to cite:
Rahimi, F. Feasibility of Hunting Invasive Locusts and Studying its Economic, Social, and Environmental Effects (Approach: Preventing the Spraying of Locusts). Preprints2023, 2023020029. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0029.v1
Rahimi, F. Feasibility of Hunting Invasive Locusts and Studying its Economic, Social, and Environmental Effects (Approach: Preventing the Spraying of Locusts). Preprints 2023, 2023020029. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0029.v1
Rahimi, F. Feasibility of Hunting Invasive Locusts and Studying its Economic, Social, and Environmental Effects (Approach: Preventing the Spraying of Locusts). Preprints2023, 2023020029. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0029.v1
APA Style
Rahimi, F. (2023). Feasibility of Hunting Invasive Locusts and Studying its Economic, Social, and Environmental Effects (Approach: Preventing the Spraying of Locusts). Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0029.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Rahimi, F. 2023 "Feasibility of Hunting Invasive Locusts and Studying its Economic, Social, and Environmental Effects (Approach: Preventing the Spraying of Locusts)" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0029.v1
Abstract
Locust is a pest that attacks human and animal food and endangers national security by threatening food security. Spraying is the easiest and fastest way to deal with them. But the easiest way is not always the best way. With chemical resistance, not only will permanent immunity from locust attacks not arise, but they will also become resistant to poisons. While we have to pay billions of dollars annually for this strategy, we will also cause water and soil pollution. Therefore, the research results of other researchers were used and modeled to measure the possibility of hunting invasive locusts to investigate the possibility and benefits of this action. So, this study was conducted in the field method. The obtained results indicate that it is possible to hunt invasive locusts. If traps are placed on time and in the right place, the possibility of preserving crops after the pest attack increases by 2.3 times more in protected fields than in unprotected fields. By hunting locusts, fields and even pastures are preserved, poisons are prevented from entering the food chain and ecosystem, part of the economic loss of farmers affected by the invasion of locusts will be compensated, and by providing animal feed through hunting locusts, water consumption will be reduced, soil erosion and energy consumption are saved.
Keywords
hunting invasive locusts; food security; entomophagy; pest; entry of toxins into the food chain
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Insect Science
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