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The Story about Locust plague & Grasshoppers.  LOCUST  Locusts are like grasshoppers and cricket. Albeit very specific kinds of grasshoppers. The ones making all the news right now are called desert locusts. Usually, they like to stay alone — avoid other locusts and lead a solitary life . But on certain rare occasions, something extraordinary happens - Gregarious  They transform. But the conditions have to be perfect. The weather has to be just right. The soil — readily moist. When the eggs hatch, there ought to be an abundance of food — host plants. And they ought to be concentrated in small spaces so large groups of locust can mingle together. And within a few hours of living with the crowd, locusts, who would have preferred leading the solitary lifestyle start behaving differently. Instead of being repelled by other locusts, they’ll be attracted to the herd. Give it more time and their physical appearance starts undergoing a transformation too. They cha...

If a global pandemic, frequent earthquakes, and a devastating cyclone weren't enough, several swarms of locusts have wreaked havoc in several states of India. After a sudden movement of a swarm of locusts were spotted on the outskirts of Jhansi district on Saturday evening, and millions of locusts were seen on trees and in Rana Heda village near Panbihar in Ujjain district, locusts made their way to the city of Jaipur on Monday. What are locusts? The desert locust is one of the 12 species of short-horned grasshoppers. Locusts swarms can travel up to 130 km in a day and each locust can consume about two grams of fresh vegetation i.e. equivalent to its own weight. A typical locust swarm can vary from less than one square kilometre to several hundred square kilometres. Locusts had entered Rajasthan in April and have covered 50,000 hectares of land thus far. In Rajasthan, 16 districts are affected, in UP 17 and Madhya Pradesh has reported one of the worst attack...