An illustration from the Arican Congo of a locust apparently eating a mouse. Locusts are a collection of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but undersuitable conditions of drought followed by rapid vegetation growth, serotonin in their brains triggers a dramatic set of changes: they start to breed abundantly, becoming gregarious and migratory forming swarms of winged adults, travel great distances and consuming most of the green vegetation wherever the swarm settles.

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Size: 3430px × 5078px
Location: Congo, Africa
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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