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Migratory Locust

Locusta migratoria

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) bugwithsmartphone, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

24 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 22, February 59, March 98, April 87, May 39, June 50, July 108, August 115, September 261, October 359, November 113, December 38.
Spain1,349
France1,025
Italy826
Cataluña/Catalunya689
Japan684
Occitanie575
Portugal460
New Zealand420
Nord-Ovest411
United States381

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyShort-horned Grasshoppers · Acrididae
GenusLocusta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Migratory Locust with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.