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The Agriculture Department is encouraging Central West landholders affected by grasshoppers to take part in a two-month survey to help accurately determine the scale of the problem, but Gregory MP Lachlan Millar says it is too little, too late.
The State Government formed a Grasshopper Working Group in response to high grasshopper populations across the central and north west of the state Queensland.
The DAF said the group, including workers from the Australian Plague Locust Commission and National Drought and Flood Agency, would work to identify the best way forward.
It said the influx of grasshoppers occurred in parallel with increased numbers of locusts in the same areas, and while it had “solid knowledge” about locusts, there was still “much to be learnt about grasshoppers”. ....

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