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Locusts

Locusts are common pests that travel in packs and can greatly damage crops.

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What body parts do locusts use to move?

Locusts are able to both jump and fly to get to where they are going. Locusts have been known to fly as far as 5 - 130 km in a day and sometimes even further.

How to fight the grasshopper?

In my opinion, you can't. Grasshoppers had lived in nature for who knows how many years, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't understand us humans.

What do weevil eggs look like?

Weevil eggs can be white or yellow and shaped like a tiny ball or jellybean. They are very small and shiny, and are generally found on the underside of grasses and leaves.

Is a locust an insect?

Yes, they are classified as insects. They are the swarming stage of grasshoppers, and can be very destructive to crops.

Do locusts eat flesh?

No they are completely harmless, i would, although, be concerned for any plants.

What to do if you get stuck by a locust tree thorn?

Spraying, squashing, and starving are ways to kill locusts. Mesh and shade-cloth, colored other than green, can prevent locusts accessing food sources on herbaceous and woody plants. Hitting with glove-encased hands or swatting equipment and removing to burn piles or trash collections handle less numerous populations whereas insecticides may be required for swarms.

Can locusts swim or live under water?

No. Water is bad for a locust i.e. it will die. Locusts gets nutrients and water through eating grass.

Why are locust so LOUD?

from kpnutta:

it rubs its legs against its body

What is a biblical group of locusts called?

It is mainly known as swarm.... But a group of locusts is also known as cloud or plaque..

Are pods from the black locust poisonous?

The leaves, bark, and wood are poisonous to people and livestock.

What are locusts?

Locusts are large grasshopper-like insects. They vary in colour depending on the species - normally brown in colour.

Like true insects they have 3 pairs of legs, the hind legs being the largest and are used for jumping. They have two pairs of wings, the outer pair being harder and used to control flight, while the lower pair are more membranous and are used for flight.

Locusts normally solitary, but become gregarious under favourable conditions and will swarm. Swarms of locusts (millions of individuals) are a serious pest during certain years particularly in Africa and Australia where they can literally decimate and entire field to the ground within an hour.

What is the color of a desert locust?

Usually a tan color to blend in with it's surroundings.

What kinds of food do locust eat?

Eating locusts, from the diary of Mr Blunt (quoted in Lady Wentworth's The Arabian Horse): "It is, I think, not generally known how excellent locusts are as food ... the red locust--which is, I believe, the female--is the best eating, and should be plain boiled. No further preparation is necessary beyond pulling off the long legs; then the insect is taken by the wings, his head dipped in salt, and he is eaten just as he is. In taste he resembles green wheat, having a very delicate vegetable flavour. Fried he is less good. also here is a recipe link for locust bisque;

http://bertc.com/locust.htm and two recipes at this link;

http://bertc.com/locust.htm

Does locust go through Metamorphosis?

Locusts go through incomplete metamorphosis.

What animals eat black locust?

As Geoff Lawton says in his Permaculture Food Forest DVD, "If you have a plague of grasshoppers you ACTUALLY have a deficiency of turkeys". A 1kg turkey will eat 3kg of grasshoppers in a season. Locusts and Grasshoppers are ideal prey for the ground bird habitat.

If you have a snail or slug problem you ACTUALLY have a duck deficiency!

How big is an average swarm of locusts?

more then there are people in the world.

Where locusts are located?

Research at Oxford has proposed that swarming behaviour is a response to overcrowding. Increased tactile stimulation of the hind legs causes an increase in levels of serotonin. This causes the locust to change colour, eat much more, and breed much more easily. The transformation of the locust to the swarming variety is induced by several contacts per minute over a four-hour period. It is estimated that the largest swarms have covered hundreds of square miles and consisted of many billions of locusts. Plagues of locusts appear many religous texts, including one of the biblical Plagues of Egypt, where locusts ate all the crops in the area. So basically, Locust swarms can occur anywhere that there is an over abundance of locusts in one area.

How can a locust live?

By farting their way into the deep blue sea, although locusts cant swim so nevermind, but their farts cause OCD, Global Warming, and Expired coffee givin to you by your jolly anut soo-shee-cheng.