locusts
Crop-devouring swarm insects
Locusts is the plural of locust, a type of grasshopper that periodically swarms in vast numbers, devastating crops and vegetation.
Biblical plagues featured locusts as divine punishment.
Figuratively, locusts describes any devouring horde: Locusts of tourists descended on the small town.
The locust tree, with its clustered seed pods, takes its name from the insect.
Cultivated plants for harvest
- harvestGathering mature crops
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- defoliationLoss of foliage
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
farmers · pastures · cereals · vegetation · stripping · voracious · feeding · plague
Deadly epidemic disease
- ExodusMass departure from a place
- PharaohEgyptian royal title
- MosesHebrew prophet, liberator
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
Joel · Revelation · apocalypse · prophecy · judgment · Israelites · scourge · omen
Atmospheric water vapor mass
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- multitudeVery large number
- throngDense pressing crowd
- massQuantity of matter
myriad · teeming · wave · migration · flight · billions · density · collective
Sensory appendages on insects
- hindlegsRear locomotive appendages
- stridulationFriction-produced insect sound
- chitinArthropod shell polymer
- moltingPeriodic shedding of covering
nymph · gregarious · solitary · serotonin · exoskeleton · mandibles · ovipositor · metamorphosis
Extreme nutritional deprivation
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
drought · subsistence · shortage · desperation · poverty · relief · emergency · vulnerable
crops
Cultivated plants for harvest
- harvestGathering mature crops
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- defoliationLoss of foliage
fields · farmers · pastures · cereals · vegetation · stripping · voracious · feeding · plague · infestation
plague
Deadly epidemic disease
Egypt · Joel · Revelation · apocalypse · prophecy · judgment · Israelites · scourge · omen · portent
cloud
Atmospheric water vapor mass
mass · myriad · teeming · wave · migration · flight · billions · density · collective · movement
antennae
Sensory appendages on insects
- hindlegsRear locomotive appendages
- stridulationFriction-produced insect sound
- chitinArthropod shell polymer
molting · nymph · gregarious · solitary · serotonin · exoskeleton · mandibles · ovipositor · metamorphosis · herbivore
starvation
Extreme nutritional deprivation
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
malnutrition · drought · subsistence · shortage · desperation · poverty · relief · emergency · vulnerable · communities
edible
Safe to consume
roasted · skewered · kosher · halal · sustainable · delicacy · snack · nutrition · Mexico · Thailand
- insectsant, ants, bee, bees, butterfly
- crop threatspests, pest, blight, drought, disease
- desert wildlifecamel, dromedary, gazelle, oryx, jerboa
- biblical punishmentsplagues, stoning, banishment, pestilence, destruction
- crop problemsblight, drought damage, crop disease, root rot, wilting
- ExodusMoses, burning bush, ten commandments, Red Sea, ten plagues
locustspollinators
Organisms transferring reproductive dust
beneficial insects · bees · earthworms · ladybugs · honeybees
locustsmanna
Miraculous sustenance from heaven
blessing · abundance · providence · milk and honey · plenty
- locust treeThorny legume-family timber tree
- plague of locustsMass insect agricultural disaster
- locust plagueMass insect agricultural devastation
- locust swarmMass migration of crop-eating insects
- locust bean gumCarob-derived food stabilizer
- desert locustMigratory insect forming destructive swarms