Did you know?....

The locust is able to tell what is green and what is not green so that it can eat it!

If the male locust comes across anything black, which is the colour of the female locust, he will try to mate with it.

In China and parts of Asia people eat locusts as food. Yummmmm!

The locust does not chirp. It makes a menacing sound by flapping its wings

The Bible talks about plagues of locusts that ate crops and brought famine.

A big swarm may contain as many as 50 billion insects!

One swarm of locusts was in Morocco, North Africa, in 1955, was 250km long and 20km wide. Thats about from Auckland to Rotorua in length, and from Maratai Beach to Puhinui School wide!