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Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Locust
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Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Locusts | Locust Swarm | Locusts Swarm • Article: PulseLive (https://www.pulselive.co.ke/bi/lifest...) • Locusts are a collection of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. • With India battling the worst desert locust outbreak in three decades, the insects have now damaged crops in five states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra — with the Centre issuing a warning to 12 states. Here are some of the amazing facts about Locusts you didn't know. • 10. A swarm of locusts can contain as many as 80 million locusts. • A desert locust swarm can be 460 square miles in size and pack between 40 and 80 million locusts into less than half a square mile. An average swarm will destroy crops that could feed 2,500 people for a year, according to FAO. • 9. They have an insatiable appetite. • Each locust can eat its weight in plants each day. A swarm of locusts can eat 423 million pounds of plants every day. • 8. When food runs out, they turn cannibal. • Locust devours every crop in their path and when food runs out they turn to each other and devour each other to death. • 7. They have serrated jaws. • Locusts have serrated jaws that move from side to side to cut through plant food. They are also equipped with a pair of secondary jaws that help in holding the food and a lower lip. • 6. They are agile flyers. • Locust swarms are typically in motion and can cover vast distances. In 1954, for instance, a swarm flew from northwest Africa to Great Britain, according to National Geographic. 5. They are different from grasshoppers despite belonging to the same family. • Locusts and grasshoppers are acridids, i.e. short-horned insects that belong to a Family called Acrididae in the Orthoptera Order, which also encompasses crickets and long-horned grasshoppers. • 4. They are waterproof and repeal most liquid poisons. • The locust is covered with a special kind of skin which is referred to as the cuticle. and on the outside is a thin layer of wax. • 3. They skip pupa stage. • Unlike other insects such as butterflies and houseflies, locusts do not undergo a complete metamorphosis. Locusts go through egg, nymph and adult stages -- lacking the pupa stage. • 2. Locusts are a delicacy in Africa. • Locusts have been considered a delicary in parts of Africa. They are stir fried, deep fried and eaten or kept for later. • 1. Locusts were carved in Egyptian Tombs. • The Ancient Egyptians carved locusts on tombs in the period 2470 to 2220 BC. A devastating plague is mentioned in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, as taking place in Egypt around 1446 BC. • #Locusts #LocustsFacts #LocustFacts
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