| Photo Information |
Copyright: Ninfa Urania (Ninfa_Urania)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2003-07-15 |
| Categories: Pets |
| Camera: FujiFilm FinePix 1300 |
| Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes |
| Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop |
| Date Submitted: 2004-04-12 16:33 |
| Viewed: 1123 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Insect Orthoptera, lobster or locust.
Schistocerca piceifrons W.
Fortunately this "Chapulín" is in my patio in solitary phase.
However, when it passes to the gregarious phase, this insect acquires the following ones characteristic, depending on the means where they inhabit:
It is one of the most important agricultural plagues in the southeast of the national territory and it is considered as potential for the other states of the slope of the Gulf of Mexico and of the Pacific, because it ends up attacking up to 400 vegetable species, being in our country the affected cultivations is: corn, bean, sorghum, rice, soya, peanut, cane of sugar, chili, tomato, citric, banana, coconut and pastizales, among others; besides that to have a high reproductive potential, they end up forming sleeves that consume in 24 hours 5 times their weight, all time that a sleeve of 3'000,000 lobsters ends up consuming up to 30 tons of vegetation; on the other hand, this plague has a great dispersion capacity, being able to move up to 20 km/hora, embracing big extensions.
Another picture of this insect in TrekEarth:
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