Migratory locust
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Migratory locusts spend the winter as eggs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Migratory locust
- Scientific name
- Locusta migratoria
- Japanese name
- トノサマバッタ
- Group
- Insects
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Acrididae
- Genus
- Locusta
It lives in bright, open grasslands and riverbanks with patches of bare ground, and likes to eat grasses.
If young hoppers grow up crowded in a group, they become brown, long-winged, very active adults.
These adults travel together in huge swarms, eat things other than grasses too, and can badly damage crops.
How the Migratory locust lives
In Japan, adults appear from summer into autumn. In strong winds, young locusts may shelter in cracks in the ground. Females lay their eggs in the soil.
国土交通省 中国地方整備局 太田川河川事務所Queensland GovernmentBasic data
- Size
- Body length: 48–65 mm
- Diet
- Grasses
- Range
- Japan, Asia, central and southern Europe, Africa, and Australia
Where the Migratory locust has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- トノサマバッタ
- 简体中文
- 东亚飞蝗
- 繁體中文
- 東亞飛蝗
- 한국어
- 풀무치
- Español
- Langosta migratoria
- Français
- Criquet migrateur
- Português (Brasil)
- Gafanhoto-migratório
- العربية
- الجراد المهاجر
- Русский
- Саранча перелётная
- Türkçe
- Afrika Göçmen Çekirgesi
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 多摩動物公園 — トノサマバッタChecked: 2026-11-03
- 国土交通省 中国地方整備局 太田川河川事務所 — トノサマバッタChecked: 2026-11-07
- Queensland Government — Migratory locustChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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