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. ...
Define Locusts. Locusts synonyms, Locusts pronunciation, Locusts translation, English dictionary definition of Locusts. locust black locust Robinia pseudoacacia n. 1. Any of various short-horned grasshoppers that sometimes migrate in immense swarms, devo
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...
"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...
(intransitive) To come in a swarm. Hopper A grasshopper or locust, especially: Locust Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididæ, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda migratoria, syn. Pachytylus migratoria, and Acridium perig...
Desert locusts, notorious for their ruinous impact on agriculture, threaten over 20% of Earth’s landmass, prompting billions in losses and global food scarcity concerns. With billions of these locusts invading agrarian lands, this is no longer a thing o
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...
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, ...
Central to swarm formation in migratory locusts is a crowding-induced change from a ``solitarious'' to a ``gregarious'' phenotype. This change can occur within the lifetime of a single locust and accrues across generations. It represents an extreme example of phenotypic plasticity. We present...
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...