desert locusts
Crop-devouring migratory grasshoppers
Desert locusts are a species of grasshopper found in Africa and the Middle East, notorious for forming massive swarms that devastate crops and vegetation.
Unlike solitary grasshoppers, desert locusts undergo behavioral and physical changes when crowded, transforming into gregarious swarms that can travel vast distances: Desert locusts destroyed the harvest across three provinces.
A single swarm may contain billions of insects.
- swarmMass of moving insects
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- AfricaSecond-largest continent
- East AfricaContinental region by Indian Ocean
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
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desert locustspollinators
Organisms transferring reproductive dust
beneficial insects · honeybees · ladybugs · earthworms · parasitic wasps
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