African locust beans are a key ingredient in many West African stews.

Every seventeen years, forests erupt in noise as millions of seventeen-year locusts emerge from the ground to mate.

In the city arboretum, the thornless honey locusts formed an elegant avenue that attracted photographers.

The botanist carefully examined the locusta under the microscope to study its development.

She stood on the ridge and watched the locustlike swarm blot out the horizon as it descended on the fields.

At dawn the villagers watched locustae descend on the ripening wheat, leaving the stalks bare by evening.

During the dawn survey, the biologist recorded three locustellas singing from the reedbeds.

At dawn in the marsh, I heard the faint, insect-like song of a locustella hidden in the reeds.

During the summer migration, locustids can devastate crops across vast regions.

During the field survey, the researcher photographed a locustid perched on a sun-warmed rock.