Chapter 3.2. Control and natural causes in the desert locust decline of the early 1960s. Pages 150-157. In: R. C. Rainey. 1989. Migration and Meteorology. Flight behavior and the atmospheric environment of locusts and other migrant pests. Oxford, UK, Clarendon Press, 314 pages.

Keywords: the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria, collapse of locusts due to heavy rains and an aerial spraying, in the summer of 1960 in Mauritania, Mali, and Senegal, decline in the East in 1962 due to spraying and predation by a Histerid beetle Saprinus ornatus reaching 90% mortality, the 1962 campaign in India, conclusions and reservations of longer term changes in the locust migration patterns and in associated wind systems