Annual report / Australian Plague Locust Commission

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Australian Plague Locust Commission
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Nq 328.94 AUS
Created/Published
Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1977-2000
Issue
1977/1978, PP no. 154 of 1979
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AUSTRALIAN PLAGUE LOCUST COMMISSION Annual Report 1977-78 1
Australian Plague Locust Commission__ Annual Report I July 1977 June 1978 3 , 5 , 6
Foreword 7
Contents 9
Introduction 11
Part I: Operations and administration The locust situation and control campaigns 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20
Control organisation and application methods in the spring campaign 20 , 21
Survey and forecasting 21 , 22 , 23 , 24
Field activities 24
Light traps 24 , 25
Aircraft 25
Staff and recruitment 25 , 26 , 27
Buildings 27
Vehicles 27
Radios 27
Insecticide purchase and holding 27 , 28 , 29 , 30
Base activities 30
g. Locust recognition handbook 30
Australian Plague Locust Commission handbook 30
Inventory check 30
Expenditure check 30
Budget 30 , 31
Meetings attended Lectures 32
Visitors Visits 32 , 33
Publications 33
Part II: Research and development 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44
The effectiveness of nymphal control methods and campaigns 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48
The collection of insecticide by low flying locusts 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52
The recovery of aerially applied insecticide on vertical surfaces 52 , 53 , 54 , 55
Experimental field treatments of nymphs with fenitrothion 55 , 56
A trial treatment of nymphs with ULV chlorpyrifos 56 , 57
Insecticide application costs 57 , 58
Satellite detection of potential breeding sites in the remote interior 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63
Factors affecting night flight 63
Factors affecting egg development before laying 63
Development of overwintering nymphs 63
Plague dynamics 63
Detection of nymphal bands 63
A map of open grassland and woodland in eastern Australia 63 , 64
A computer model to estimate egg development and mortality from daily weather data 64
The simulated spraying of a locust swarm 64
The simulated distribution of night flying insects in a convergence 64
The characteristics of insecticide droplets prior to and after deposition on grass 64
Dispersal of airborne spray droplets 64
Comparative tests of insecticides 64

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