Locust (disambiguation)

Locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acridida.

Locust or Locusts may also refer to:

Biology

Insects

• Cicadas, often called locusts when they swarm
• Magicicada, a genus of cicadas often referred to as "13-year or 17-year locusts"

Plants

• Plants of the genus Robinia:
  • The black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a leguminous tree with toxic pods
• Plants of the genus Gleditsia
  • The honey locust, (Gleditsia triacanthos), a leguminous tree with pods having a sweet edible pulp
• Locust bean, fruit of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua)
• African locust bean, fruit of the néré tree (Parkia biglobosa)

Arts and entertainment

Films

• Locusts: The 8th Plague, a 2005 horror movie
• The Locusts (film), a 1997 American film starring Vince Vaughn and Kate Capshaw

Music

• Locust, an alias of electronic artist Mark Van Hoen from Touch Records
• Locust Music, a Chicago-based record label
• The Locust, a US noise-rock band from California
  • The Locust (album)
  • The Locust (EP)
• Locust, a 1997 album from the Swedish hardcore / thrash metal band Mary Beats Jane
• Locust, an album from the French metal band Lyzanxia
• "Locust", a song by a-ha from their 1993 album Memorial Beach
• "Locust", a song by heavy-metal band Machine Head from their 2011 album Unto the Locust

Other

• Locust (comics), a minor Marvel Comics foe of the X-Men
• Locust Horde, the main enemy force in the third-person shooter video game series Gears of War
• Locust, a light BattleMech in the fictional BattleTech universe
• Locust, a Fairy chess piece which captures by hopping over its victim (as in checkers)
• Locust, a quadruped Covenant anti-building vehicle in the video game Halo Wars
• Locusts, a mythological hybrid creature appearing in the Book of Revelation

Places

In the United States

• Locust, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Locust, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Locust, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
• Locust, North Carolina, a city
• Locust, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Locust, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Locust Township, Christian County, Illinois
• Locust Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
• Locust Lake, Pennsylvania
• Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, a tributary in Alabama
• Locust Creek (Missouri) - see List of rivers of Missouri
• Locust Creek (Shamokin Creek), Pennsylvania
• Locust Creek (West Virginia) - see Locust Creek Covered Bridge (West Virginia)

In the military

• HMS Locust, three ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Locust, two ships of the US Navy
• M22 Locust, an unsuccessful American World War II light tank
• Operation Locust, an Australian World War II commando raid in New Guinea

People

• Stephen V of Moldavia, Prince of Moldavia from 1538 to 1540
• Rich LeFevre, competitive eater nicknamed "The Locust"

Other uses

• Locust (car), a kit car inspired by the Lotus 7
• Locust, a GWR Metropolitan Class locomotive
• Locust (finance), a term used in discussions critical of capitalism in Germany
• Locust United Methodist Church, a historic African-American church in Columbia, Maryland

See also

• Les Sauterelles (French for "the Locusts"), a Swiss musical group