2007-01-04 22:17:50 · 7 answers · asked by Santee 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Many short horned grasshoppers (sub-order Caelifera) are capable of becoming swarms. These swarms are created in response to crowding and other environmental stimuli. The members of these swarms take advantage of the close proximity of con specifics to mate. Once the females deposit their eggs (usually underground) they will continue feeding until they simply die of old age. They simply expire after a while.....
So, to answer your question, yes they do all die off, but during this process, they left behind their progeny as eggs.....this is really what all organisms are here to do, so even though the adults die, their life's mission has been completed, to increase biological fitness....
2007-01-05 05:15:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
(ANS) My understanding is that locust swarms develop at very specific times of the year usually to coincide with the growth of certain foods & crops (probably due to evolution). Swarms have two forms the immature or baby locusts (hoppers which dont have wings)& the larger more mature adult stage of the creature which does have wings & can fly.
**Locusts will eat anything & everything in the path (entire fields of crops quite literaly) and then they reproduce & then die.
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2007-01-04 22:31:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In time all living creatures die that is the basic fact of life. The length of life of individual adult locusts varies. Some have been kept alive in cages for over a year, but in the field they probably live between 2 and 5 months. Apart from accidental death the life span depends on how long they take to become sexually mature. The quicker they mature the shorter the total length of life. There is a moral there we humans should take note of.
2007-01-04 22:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once they have eaten all the crops they start to eat each other until there is only one left,its about the size of a Buffalo by now so it can't fly so a lion probably eats it
2007-01-08 07:56:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only on Saturdays
2007-01-04 22:29:08 · answer #5 · answered by Antman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They mate,lay eggs, then they die, then the babies mate, then lay eggs and die, etc etc etc! nice life!
2007-01-04 22:23:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-01-04 22:26:10 · answer #7 · answered by fred r 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋