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From Longman Dictionary

lo‧cust /ˈləʊkəst $ ˈloʊ-/ noun [countable]

an insect that lives mainly in Asia and Africa and flies in a very large group, eating and destroying crops

Example

Perhaps nets were hung over windows and doorways in the temples to keep out birds, and possibly dragon-flies and locusts

Growing close to the house was a gnarled locust tree

They resembled a horde of human locusts

Churchill’s biographer refers to the years before the Second World War as the locust years

The yellow locust is another matter entirely