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SENASA / Press release
The approach of a lobster cloud through northeastern Argentina that reached the province of Corrientes and was later wiped out in Entre Ríos, about 90 kilometers west of Quaraí, put Rio Grande do Sul on alert in winter.
Now, with a dry and hot climate, and the drought of the last weeks, a new appearance of lobsters leaves Rio Grande do Sul in the center of attention. And this time the lobsters are much closer to our border.
Grasshoppers were observed near the border with Porto Xavier, in the northwest of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Argentine towns of Itacaruaré and Campo Vieira, in the province of Misiones).
Zoniopoda tarsata is #Missions
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: RomaleidaeSource: CR Cormis @SenasaAR @ PedroHMendez1 pic.twitter.com/V0XX9vujS6
– Hector Emilio Medina 🌾🦗 (@MedinaHectorE) November 23, 2020
Lobsters are of the species Chromacris speciosa, which have been feeding on native forests, weeds and yerba mate on the Argentine side, but they have little mobility and are not as voracious, unlike the species of insects that moved quickly and threatened ago four months. massively invade gaucho plantations.
The Rio Grande do Sul Department of Agriculture says there is less cause for concern, although surveillance remains vigilant due to the proximity of insects on the Western Border.
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