Locust

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Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria
Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria

Locust is a kind of grasshopper which forms swarms. Such swarms are usually made of very many locusts. They do a lot of damage to the places where they pass, by eating the crops.

In the Bible, locust swarms are described as a plague.

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More detailed information on locusts can be found at the pages of the Australian Plague Locust Commission.