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They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction. When the conditions are right, they transform from mild-mannered loners into gregarious partiers. They swarm, ...

They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction. They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction. When the conditions ...

Journal of Orthoptera Research, No. 4 (Aug., 1995), pp. 61-64 (4 pages) For the past 10-15 years Brazil has undergone wide-ranging outbreaks of locusts and grasshoppers. Rhammatocerus schistocercoides ...

The thought of locusts swarming through an area in a vast, ravenous swarm conjures images of biblical plagues and ancient curses. It’s a reasonable response. Locusts have been a pest animal since the ...

Locusts are crop pests of biblical proportions. They can form swarms of thousands upon thousands of insects, which fly from place to place consuming every shred of greenery in their path. Finding a ...

In a scene that was equal parts futuristic and biblical, a swarm of grasshoppers descended upon a giant pyramid in Las Vegas this weekend. Meanwhile, a true plague descended upon Yemen’s largest city, ...

While writing about locust trees growing along the Feather River, I was confronted by the word “locust” being used for an insect, too. Certain grasshopper species in Africa, Asia, Australia, and some ...

Mention locust to me and Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth" comes to mind, compliments of my elementary school board that deemed the movie version necessary viewing. Those locust swarms gave me nightmares, ...