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locust

Noun

All locusts are grasshoppers (in the biological sense) but not all grasshoppers are locusts (only those species capable of swarming).

A large swarm of locusts can consume the same amount of food as tens of thousands of people in one day.

A single locust can eat roughly its own weight in plants every day.

Historical records show that locust plagues have threatened human societies for thousands of years.

In their gregarious phase, locusts form enormous swarms that can devastate crops over vast regions.

Locusts are grasshoppers capable of changing their behavior when population density increases.

A locust is a type of grasshopper that, unlike ordinary grasshoppers, can change behavior and form massive swarms when population density is high.