These grain-devouring pests (usually called quelea) like to roost together in the tall grass after a day in the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Questions and Answers] Reference

Earlier this year, quelea birds invaded some areas and affected harvests.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The fields of ripe grain Iying in the path of quelea migrations are essentially doomed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

Finger millet is subject to bird predators - notably to the notorious quelea (see Appendix A).    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Finger Millet] Reference

Efforts to control quelea with poisons, napalm, dynamite, pathogens, and electronic devices have failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

And if it can be brought to perfection, it might transform the production of cereals throughout the quelea combat zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

Desperately-needed wheat crops in central Zimbabwe are being ravaged by a plague of quelea birds, national radio reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Irrigation projects may also encourage pesticide use to control insects and other pests such as the red-billed quelea or dioch (quelea quelea).    From Wordnik.com.  [Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna] Reference

The Herald said an invasion of quelea birds, a local pest that destroys wheat when it is nearly ready for harvesting, had also compromised wheat yields.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

These birds include the quelea - a small, rather nondescript weaverbird that has replaced the locust as the most serious pest of small-grain crops in parts of Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [10. Sorghum: Specialty Types] Reference

Where quelea occurs, family members must patrol the ripening fields for weeks, disrupting their lives and restricting all outside activities such as jobs or schooling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

Although the fact that other species roost with quelea is a concern that needs to be evaluated, techniques such as use of chemicals and explosions, for instance - are as indiscriminate or more so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

In isolated locations (and on sites quelea should find irresistible), they planted plots of napier grass and shaped them with slightly narrowed waists where the barriers and traps could be easily erected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

Of the 116 quelea ringed, 10 were adult males, nine adult females and 97 recently fledged juveniles.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Farmers should be warned, the Department of Agriculture should be informed and I will certainly contact the quelea group in Pretoria.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The estimated total quelea population is 1,5 billion birds, and it is considered by some to be the most numerous land-bird in the world.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Their operation found hard evidence that the quelea had bred recently: many nests and eggshells, two nests with addled eggs and a large number of juveniles.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

While quelea were sometimes blamed for damage they did not do - the birds were very visible, while insects were less so - they had certainly been proved to cause vast damage, he said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Underhill's colleague Dr Dieter Oschadleus, who is bird-ringing co-ordinator of Safring, says the red-billed quelea - one of 112 weaverbird species in the world - did not occur historically in the Western Cape but had in recent decades started expanding its range into the province.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Take a look at http://www.geocities.com/quelea/waspmontage.html to see the variety of face patterns on these wasps. fnxtr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polistes dominula - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

quelea quelea, Red-billed quelea.    From Wordnik.com.  [BIRDS ETCETERA] Reference