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Locusts are a collection of species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase that spread across regions, voracious crop eater & leaving serious agricultural damage in their wake. Common name : Desert Locusts Scientific name : Schistocerca gregaria Type: Invertebrates Diet: Herbivore Group name: Swarm (dimension: 40km * 60km in Kenya in 2020) Average Life Span: Several months Size: 0.5 to 3 inches Weight: 0.07 ounces   Life of a Locust Egg (10-65 days)   ↓ Non flying adult (hopper) (25-95 days) ↓   Flying adult (2.5 -5 months ) (On hatching, a locust emerges wingless as a non-flying nymph, which can be either solitary or gregarious. A nymph can also change behaviour in between the phase before becoming a flying adult after 24-95 days)   Locusts look like ordinary grasshopper    ̶ most notably, both of them have big hind legs which assist th...