locust

     

Oeipodinae Gomphocerinae

Trivia about locust

  • Chapter 1 of the book of Joel concerns the day of this crop-ravaging type of grasshopper
  • The day of this critter can take 17 years to arrive
  • Joel 1:4 describes a plague where "that which the palmerworm hath left hath" this insect "eaten"
  • Better-known name of the short-horned grasshopper

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