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DOI	10.1002/pan3.10198
	The sluggard has no locusts: From persistent pest to irresistible icon
	Dominy, Nathaniel J.; Fannin, Luke D.
通讯作者	Dominy, NJ (corresponding author), Dartmouth Coll, Dept Anthropol, Hanover, NH 03755 USA.
来源期刊	PEOPLE AND NATURE
EISSN	2575-8314
出版年	2021
卷号	3 期号:3 页码:542-549
英文摘要	Desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria are threatening the food security of millions of people and devastating economies in eastern Africa and northern India. The ongoing outbreak is the largest in seven decades. These events give us cause to reflect on the natural history of locusts, our fraught relationship with them, and how they are represented in American popular culture and others. Symbolic representations span millennia and most have roots in the natural life cycle of locusts-they transform, they swarm, they devastate specific food crops. There is strong tendency to exaggerate the body size of locusts and the effectiveness of control efforts. Expressions of human futility are rare except in the form of ironic humour. We conclude by suggesting that we humans indulge in hyperbole and humour to normalize and inure ourselves to the psychologically unbearable, and that this tendency is a precondition for the techno-optimism that drives anti-locust technologies. There is no substitute for effective monitoring and management programs, but the importance of new and emerging anti-locust technologies is expected to increase with projections of increased cyclone activity in the northern Indian Ocean. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
英文关键词	cultural studies desert locust film and media studies Schistocerca gregaria
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Submitted, gold
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000660704700003
WOS关键词	DESERT LOCUST ; GRASSHOPPERS ; ENTOMOLOGY
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Ecology
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/352934
作者单位	[Dominy, Nathaniel J.] Dartmouth Coll, Dept Anthropol, Hanover, NH 03755 USA; Dartmouth Coll, Grad Program Ecol Evolut Environm & Soc, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dominy, Nathaniel J.,Fannin, Luke D.. The sluggard has no locusts: From persistent pest to irresistible icon[J],2021,3(3):542-549.
APA	Dominy, Nathaniel J.,&Fannin, Luke D..(2021).The sluggard has no locusts: From persistent pest to irresistible icon.PEOPLE AND NATURE,3(3),542-549.
MLA	Dominy, Nathaniel J.,et al."The sluggard has no locusts: From persistent pest to irresistible icon".PEOPLE AND NATURE 3.3(2021):542-549.