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The current outbreak of the desert locust has affected much of eastern Africa and has reached as far as Pakistan and India in Asia, generating significant agricultural losses in a region that is already highly unstable economically, politically and in terms of food security for its human populations (FAO, 2020). Desert locust outbreaks require a combination of weather, soil and vegetation conditions that favour the reproduction and aggregation of otherwise solitary individuals (Despland, Collett, & Simpson, 2000; Figure 1a). When those conditions appear, locusts aggregate, multiply in large numbers and migrate long distances, turning into a plague and devastating crops on their way. Solitary populations, which act as reservoirs for the gregarious forms, are likely to shrink their distribution under climate change because of a decrease in moisture and increased temperatures in much of the current recession range …