The Locust Attack (must known facts)

Locust belongs to the grasshopper, cricket insect family, they are similar to each other.
Locust belongs to the desert region, they are not as cricket & grasshoppers as they exist in the two phases.

1. Solitary phase.

The phase when they remain single.

2. Gregarious phase.

In this phase in which they live in the crowd & increases in their size & shape. They get harmful, they rapidly move, increase in their eating habits & destroys the vegetation.





Locusts are a collection of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. 
Desert Locust plagues occurred in 1926-1934, 1940-1948, 1949-1963, 1967-1969 & 1986-1989.
 A Desert Locust lives a total of about three to five months although this is extremely variable and depends mostly on weather and ecological conditions.

• Since December Locust swarms have been destroying crops all over East Africa and now they have reached Pakistan and India. Locusts are insects that belong to the same family as crickets and grasshoppers.
• They grow in isolation (solitary phase) but lack of rain can push individual locusts to grow. And in high densities, they undergo a phase change to the gregarious phase.
• This changes their habits, behavior, appearance and causes swarms to build up, which destroys agriculture crops across the world.

• The locusts have the existence in the desert regions, & from the deserts of the African continents, they travel from Yemen, Iraq, & Pakistan to the deserts of India.

With India battling the worst desert locust outbreak in three decades, the crop-destroying insects have now spread to Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh after arriving in Rajasthan. Swarms are less likely to reach south India.