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Locust

Locusts (derived from the Latin locusta, locust or lobster) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances they become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious. No taxonomic distinction is made between…

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Swarming grasshoppers

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Locust

Nodes138
Edges137
Triples155
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014493
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Locust

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related to Monitoring · 30
Locust → Agriculture Organization's Commission, Australian Plague Locust Commission, Caucasus, Central, Central Asia, Controlling, Desert Locust, Early, Food, Ideally, In Australia, In Central, In February, In West, India, International Locust Control Organization, It, Mauritania, Monitoring, Morocco
related to Ancient times · 24
Locust → AD, Aristotle, Baptist, BC, Bible, Book, Capua, China, Chinese, Egypt, Exodus, He, In, Indian Mahabharata, John, Livy, New Testament, Plagues, Quran, Revelation
related to Distribution and diversity · 23
Locust → Africa, Algeria, Antarctica, Australia, Australian, Chortoicetes, Egypt, For, Indian, Israel, Jordan, Mali, Mauritania, Middle East, Morocco, Niger, North Africa, Schistocerca, Several, Sudan
related to Recent times · 20
Locust → Africa, Ahmad, Asia, Australasia, Budayri, China, Damascus, During, Europe, In, India, May God Almighty, Middle East, Nomadacris, North, One, Other, South America, The Bombay, They
related to External links · 16
Locust → August, Environmental Assessment, Eritrean Locust Control Program, Locust Meteorological Monitoring, Locust WatchFAO EMPRES Archived, March, October, Pakistan Locust Control Programs, Ri Channel, Sahel ResourcesLocust VideoUSAID Supplemental, The Locust Plague, To Black, USAID Supplemental Environmental Assessment, Visual, Wayback MachineFAO, YouTubeWhen The Skies Turned
related to Control · 8
Locust → By, GIS, GPS, Historically, In, Other, This, ULV
related to Evolution · 7
Locust → Arabian Peninsula, Early Oligocene-aged, Iran, Pabdeh Formation, Paratethys Sea, The, This
related to Solitary and gregarious phases · 6
Locust → In, Locusts, One, The, These, They
related to Swarming grasshoppers · 6
Locust → Acrididae, In English, Locusts, No, The, These
related to As experimental models · 5
Locust → At Tel Aviv University, Drosophila, It, Musca, The

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locusts swarms control swarming insects species gregarious bands grasshoppers plagues become plague early desert africa swarm large conditions migratory change

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Locustis arare species0.90text
the Senegalese grasshopperinstance ofSpecies0.80text
Mauritaniainstance ofbut neighbouring poorer countries0.80text
Yemen lack the resourcesinstance ofbut neighbouring poorer countries0.80text
may breed locust swarms that threaten the whole region.Several organisations around the world monitor the threat from locustsinstance ofbut neighbouring poorer countries0.80text
the fruit flyinstance ofIt has been used in evolutionary biology research and to test the generalizability of conclusions reached about test organisms0.80text
carob beansinstance ofAttempts have been made to explain the text to mean ascetic vegetarian food0.80text
but the plain meaning of the Greek akrides is locustinstance ofAttempts have been made to explain the text to mean ascetic vegetarian food0.80text
Locustrelated to Ancient timesStudy0.60section
Locustrelated to Ancient timesThe0.60section
Locustrelated to Ancient timesThe Ancient Egyptians0.60section
Locustrelated to Ancient timesBC0.60section

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