locust: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: World Animal Rescue Network - Locust. Oct 17, 2026
Add new Web site: PNAS - Locust density shapes energy metabolism and oxidative stress resulting in divergence of flight traits. Jun 11, 2026
Add new Web site: Cell Press - How locusts become a plague. Jan 10, 2026
Add new Web site: Nature Communications - The locust genome provides insight into swarm formation and long-distance flight. Sep 27, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - How a single locust becomes a plague. Aug 14, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Locust Dynamics: behavioral phase change and swarming. Jul 05, 2025
Add new Web site: Australian Government - Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - About locusts. May 23, 2025
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Locusts (PDF). Nov 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Open Educational Resources Collective - Statistics: Meaning from data - ANOVA. Jan 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Austarlian Government - Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry - About locusts. Oct 20, 2023
Add new Web site: WebMD - What Are Locusts? Sep 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Frontiers - A Global Review on Locusts (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and Their Interactions With Livestock Grazing Practices. May 02, 2023
Add new Web site: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia. Mar 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Plantvillage - Locusts. Jan 13, 2023
Add new Web site: AZ Animals - Locust. Jul 05, 2022
Add new Web site: Live Science - What are locusts and why do they swarm? Jul 05, 2022
Removed media. Nov 16, 2021
Replaced photograph. Sep 28, 2017
Cross-references added. Sep 26, 2017
Add new Web site: Easy Science for KIDS - Locusts - How Can They Eat Acres of Crops? Jun 03, 2016
Added video that describes the role played by the Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) in the Grasshopper Plague of 1874 and its mysterious disappearance afterward. Dec 02, 2015
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Animals - Locust. Apr 04, 2014
Add new Web site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Locust. Mar 31, 2014
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Desert Locust. Mar 31, 2014
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - What is the Habitat of a Locust. Jul 08, 2013
New illustration added. Jan 15, 2009
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Animals - Locust. Aug 28, 2008
Article revised and updated. Apr 13, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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