Desert locust
Schistocerca gregaria
When the desert locust population grows and their nutrition becomes more scarce, the locusts migrate in enormous swarms elsewhere, eating all vegetation in their way. A swarm may comprise billions of locusts. The problem in combating locusts is that pesticides eventually end up in the bodies of the birds eating them.
Tropical house Africasia
Endangerment
Distribution
Habitat
Diet
Lifespan
3–5 months
Scientific classification
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Acridae