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Favourable conditions for breeding:
=> Moist sandy or sand/clay soil to depths of 10-15 cm below the surface
=> Some bare areas for egg-laying, and green vegetation for hopper development.
=> Often favourable conditions may exist in the desert but there are no locusts present.

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Solitary phase (low numbers and densities):
=>Locusts behave as individuals, much like grasshoppers.
=>In gregarious phase, they form dense and highly mobile (marching) bands of hoppers and flying swarms of adults (winged locusts), which behave as an entity.

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As they need bare land to lay eggs , huge desert and barren land of Rajasthan makes up for the perfect condition far away from area of dense vegetation . Once the egg   hatches , they fly away from the desert lands . Since kharif crops are to be sown , it can cause  big problems. Currently , with no crops in the fields , the report mentioned that the swarms have invaded green spaces like parks and orchards in Jaipur and Nagpur .

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Locust infestation is largely found in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. Talasari, Dahanu and Jawhar talukas of Palghar district bordering Gujarat have been alerted about the locust infestation.

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The measures that the government should take to curb the locust problem In India are:

•Should buy and spray pesticides for the prevention from locusts in several areas especially The areas where crops are grown or agriculture is taking place.

•The centeral government of india should provide money or funds to the state governments of the places where there are locusts.

•Government should start a ‘abhyan’ or something in which every state can show there contribution by providing money To the areas  which are facing locust problem.

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I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to Sst staff as well as our principal Seema jerath who gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic locust.

There were also a few websites which gave us all the content we needed-
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust
2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/group/locusts/
3. https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/locust-attack-in-india/article31729025.ece
Thanks a lot to them.

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There are two meteorological drivers behind the current locust attack in India
1.Unseasonal heavy rains in the main spring-breeding tracts in Arabian peninsula in March-April.
2.Strong westerly winds from the Arabian peninsula to India.
3.According to meteorologists, a differential pattern of warming in the Indian Ocean (Indian-ocean dipole) may be a trigger.
4.Due to climate change, the anomalies in the Indian ocean dipole are increasing and subsequently, the monsoon pattern, intensity, cyclonic storms, are undergoing change.