Twitter Google Share on Facebook locust (redirected fromLocust swarm) Thesaurus Encyclopedia locust black locust Robinia pseudoacacia lo·cust (lō′kəst) n. 1.Any of various short-horned grasshoppers that sometimes migrate in immense swarms, devouring vegetation and crops. ...
Robinia pseudoacacia,yellow locust,black locust- large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions clammy locust,Robinia viscosa- small rough-barked locust of southeastern...
"Some swarms are maturing while others are moving south and west into the southern parts of Ethiopia with at least one swarm reaching the edge of the Rift Valley in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People Region (SNNPR)," it added. According to figures from the FAO, about 6,000-hecta...
NEW DELHI, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Farmer in India have suffered a lot after a huge swarm of "Desert Locusts" hit standing crops in hundreds and thousands of hectares of agriculture fields in western states of Gujarat and Rajasthan, and also parts of adjoining state (towards the north) Punjab...
It could get worse; African locusts are known to swarm as far as Pakistan. The damage in Europe and the Middle East has thus far been negligible, largely because the locusts were too exhausted to eat by the time they landed. Though the arrival of the swarms was a harrowing spectacle, ...
We explore several hypotheses for the swarming behaviour in locusts, with a goal of understanding how swarm cohesion can be maintained by the huge populati... L Edelstein-Keshet,J Watmough,D Grunbaum - 《Journal of Mathematical Biology》 被引量: 155发表: 1998年 Neuroparsin transcripts as molecu...
11. Your princes are like the locust swarm, And your officials are like hordes of locusts, Which camp in the hedges On a cold day, But when the sun arises, they flee away, And the place where they are is unknown. 3:17 你的首领多如蝗虫,你的军长仿佛成群的蝗虫,天凉的时候,齐落在篱笆...
In Africa and Asia particularly, the termlocustrefers to the type of grasshopper known for swarming and destroying almost any vegetation in their path, including crops. When environmental conditions turn bad, theselocuststurn social and migrate. This migration is often called aswarm(or sometimes apl...
The Locust Search (LS) algorithm is a swarm-based optimization method inspired in the natural behavior of the desert locust. LS considers the inclusion of two distinctive nature-inspired search mechanism, namely their solitary phase and social phase operators. These interesting search schemes allow ...
The elm, however, made a pleasant, cheerful, sunny sigh, responsive to the breeze that was elsewhere imperceptible; a swarm of insects buzzed merrily under its drooping shadow, and became specks of light whenever they darted into the sunshine; a locust sang, once or twice, in some inscrutable...