locust

📅 Updated:2017-07-24

🕒 Created:2017-07-24

🆔 ID:17112

Description

Locusts are a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae. They are well known for their swarming periods and also their huge threats towards agriculture under stressful circumstances of drought. They are well known throughout history as plagues, and are acknowledged as such in texts such as such as Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Christian bible.