Appearance characteristics of locusts

Locusts have developed hind legs and can jump dozens of times longer than their bodies. As an incompletely metamorphosed insect, larvae are similar to adults, but their wings are different. The hind wings are translucent. Some species of locusts have degenerated into smaller wings, and some species, such as locusts, have lost the ability to fly.

The body color is green and brown, regardless of species; It is the protective color of the living environment. Locusts have large mouths and developed jaws, and feed on plant leaves. Locusts like to eat reeds, barnyard grass, white grass, Sedum sarmentosum and Artemisia, shrimp grass and Salicornia bigelovii Torr. Some locust species are omnivorous, and they also eat the dead bodies of insects, even the dead bodies of the same kind.

Some kinds of males make sounds to attract females, but they make sounds by rubbing their wings and hind legs, which is different from the pronunciation structure of crickets making sounds with their front wings.

Extended data:

Locusts are ORTHOPTERA insects of Acridoidea. There are more than 10000 kinds in the world. Distributed in tropical and temperate grasslands and desert areas all over the world.

There are basically grasshoppers, short-horned grasshoppers, Cao Meng grasshoppers and so on. However, due to the similar appearance of grasshoppers and grasshoppers, people in different areas often have different common names for these two insects, such as "calling grasshoppers grasshoppers grasshoppers and Cao Meng" or "calling grasshoppers short-horned grasshoppers".

In biological classification, the word "grasshopper" can be divided into two categories: "rhomboidea" and "Armadidae". Oxytropis is also called Tetrigoidea, and Oxytropis is also called Cobra. The origin of locusts and the extinction of some species (some as long as15cm) are still unknown.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia locust