Longtou News Recently, Harbin City found locusts (nymphs of locusts) in the birch forest of Shuanghe Village in Pingshan Town, Acheng District, quandian Village in Yagou Town, and in the forest wasteland where Juren and Binxi in Bin County, with 3,000-5,000 locusts per square meter and an insect age of 1-2 years old. In this regard, the Harbin Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued an emergency notice to organize culling and strictly prevent locusts from causing harm to crops.
In order to prevent locusts from moving into farmland to harm crops, the Harbin Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs quickly carried out close monitoring and investigation, organized townships, villages, and agricultural technicians to go deep into the woodlands and wastelands around the farmland to comprehensively investigate the occurrence of locusts, mainly to investigate the types of locusts, estimate the number of insects per square meter, and formulate contingency plans for the proportion of locusts in each insect age, the proportion of adult insects, and the area where they occur, so as to ensure early detection, early reporting, and early control, control the harm to a minimum, and prevent locusts from transferring to the field to harm crops.
For districts and counties (cities) where locusts have been found so far, immediately organize peasant households to carry out unified prevention and control, use natural enemies, biological control, and chemical control to culle regional navigation operations, and formulate operation plans. Organize agricultural technicians and experts to immediately go deep into the fields, forest lands, and wastelands to find out the basic situation, guide peasant households to carry out scientific prevention and control, publicize the knowledge and technology of locust eradication, and let peasant households understand the occurrence of locusts and be able to take effective prevention and control measures.