Locust Collection

Schistocerca gregaria, desert locust
A desert locust perching on a branch. Locusts sometimes swarm to form groups of up to 80 million and can migrate over large distances

BANANAS
Banana Monstera Deliciosa, aka Fruit Salad Plant, Cariman, Mexican Breadfruit, Locust & Wild Honey, Windowleaf, Monsterio, Swiss Cheese Plant etc

Honey locust or thorny locust tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, Gleditschia triacanthos, Fevier a trois epines. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert

Locust

Fairfax Hotel, 43rd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, PA
The Fairfax Hotel, 43rd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1930s

LEAF INSECTS
There are 25 insects here, all mimicking foliage or such : the dead-leaf butterfly is in the centre : the leaf-like locust upper right, and there are various stick insects. Date: circa 1890

WW II - T-19 Locust tank emerging from a Hamilcar gilder
Vintage photograph World War II - T-19 Locust tank emerging from a Hamilcar gilder

Yellow-winged locust, Gastrimargus musicus (Painted locust, Gryllus pictus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological

Gumleaf grasshopper (female top, male below), Goniaea australasiae. Australasian locust, Gryllus australasiae. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Migratory locusts and eggs, Locusta migratoria (Gryllus migratorius). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Sporting brooches mounted in diamonds: pug dog, frog, wheel, polo pony, locust, etc. Chromolithograph from Edwin Streeters Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895

Grey bush cricket, Platycleis grisea (Gray locust, Locusta grisea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Serrate lubber grasshopper, Prionolopha serrata (Serrated locust, Gryllus serratus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Elephant locust, Pamphagus elephas (Gryllus elephas). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw

Corn cricket, Hetrodes pupus (Pupal locust, Gryllus pupus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw

African grasshopper or milkweed locust, Phymateus cinctus (Triple-spined locust, Gryllus squarrosus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Long-headed African locust, Acrida nasuta (Long-fronted locust, Gryllus nasutus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Indian locust, Gryllus indicus (Schistocerca gregaria?). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Wart biter locust, moths and beetle
Female wart biter locust laying eggs, Decticus verrucivorus 4, feathered footman, Spiris striata 1, and crimson-speckled flunkey, Utetheisa pulchella 2, and Lixus paraplecticus beetle 3

Carob tree or locust bean, Ceratonia siliqua. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Mixelle l aine after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et

Giant grasshopper, Tropidacris dux. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwoods new edition of Dru Drurys Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Bohn, London, 1837

Grasshoppers and locusts
Obscure bird grasshopper, Schistocerca obscura 1, fork-tailed bush katydid, Scudderia furcata 2, lubber grasshopper, Taeniopoda centurio 3, and coffee locust, Aularches miliaris subsp. miliaris 4

African and brown-spotted locusts
African locust, Phymateus cinctus 1, and brown spotted locust, Cyrtacanthacris tatarica? 2. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Bristly locust tree, Robinia hispida
La Robin couleur de chair. Bristly locust tree, Robinia hispida. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

Lantern fly, locust, mantis, cicada and beetles
Lantern fly, Fulgora laternaria 1, migratory locust, Grillus migratorius 2, European mantis, Mantis religiosa 3, common cicada, Cicada plebeia 4, Hercules beetle, Dynastes hercules 5, and cockchafer

Exotic Chinese insects
Chinese insects: milkweed locust, Phymateus morbillosus morbillosus 1, jewel beetles, Chrysochroa vittata 2, Chrysochroa ocellata 3, Chinese scarab beetle, Scarabaeus chinensis 4

Carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Acacia tree, Common Robinia or Locust Tree. Date: 1842

Scientists examining maps and statistics at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Scientist in a mask, examining locusts in perspex containers at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Scientist in a mask, examining a locust in a perspex container at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Scientist at work in the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Close-up of a scientist examining and testing a locust at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Scientist examining and testing a locust at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Close-up of a scientist examining a locust through a microscope at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Scientist examining a locust through a microscope at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Melanoplus spretus. Rocky mountain locust
A specimen of the Rocky mountain locust, also called the Rocky mountain grasshopper (Melanoplus spretus). This species that once inhabited the eastern slopes of the Rockies is now extinct

Hotel de Soto - Locust at 11th Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Located in the heart of Downtown with its theatres, Business and Shopping Centre within a minutes walk... Date: 1941

Locust invasion, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
Locust invasion in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. 1931

Anti-Locust Research Centre, London
Scientist examining a locust through a magnifying glass at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Wandering or migratory locust, Gryllus migratoria.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

South american locust, Locusta cristata (Egyptian locust, Gryllus cristatus).. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Locust, Cnemidophyllum citrifolium.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Calymene blumenbachii, locust trilobite
Specimens of locust tribolites (Calymene blumenbachii) from Silurian, Wenlock Limestone, Dudley, West Midlands

Ornithacris pictula magnifica, locust
A locust with its elytra open and wings spread. Locusts sometimes swarm to form groups of up to 80 million and can migrate over large distances

Locust model on display in the Creepy Crawlies gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

Phymateus morbillosus, common milkweed locust

Icterus spurius, orchard oriole
Plate 42 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

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