i live in Wisconsin now and read something in our tiny paper that the cicada's will be here this year. are they the same as locust?
2007-06-11 16:46:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. Locust are related to grasshoppers. during certain conditions they mutate and swarm. Cicada's are a different type of insect. They go underground and commonly hatch out every 7-17 years.
2007-06-11 16:51:12 · answer #1 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The distinct noise made by cicadas are often mistakenly said to be made by locusts. Some people who know that it is actually the cicada still call these same insects locusts.
But they are not locusts. Cicadas are not even in the same family. In fact, about the only thing they have in common is the fact that they are both insects.
Locusts are grasshoppers.
El Chistoso
2007-06-11 17:10:02 · answer #2 · answered by elchistoso69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the midwest, we call the cicadas locusts. However, a real locust such as they talk about in the bible is a sort of big grasshopper.
So as far as our usual way of speaking here in the midwest, yes, but if you read something about a plague of locusts flying around and eating crops, that's the giant grasshoppers.
2007-06-11 16:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by gehme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all about common names and colloquial vernacular. 17 year locust refers to cicadas, in the order Homoptera. Biblical locusts are grasshoppers, in the order Orthoptera. Common names can be very confusing, which is why taxonomy and systematics use scientific nomenclature.
2007-06-11 16:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by Skeff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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are cicada and locust the same thing?
i live in Wisconsin now and read something in our tiny paper that the cicada's will be here this year. are they the same as locust?
2015-08-04 05:27:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, same thing. Some kinds of locusts are dormant for many years before emerging - I've heard of 7 and 17 year cycles. Where I live, we get them every summer - but the desert is too dry to support large numbers so they don't become hordes or anything.
They make this hideous loud buzzing drone I can't stand, but I have to live with it so I try to let it fade in the background.
2007-06-11 16:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cicada locust thing: https://tinyurl.im/e/are-cicada-and-locust-the-same-thing
2015-05-11 19:15:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, locusts are like grass hoppers.
2007-06-11 16:50:48 · answer #8 · answered by †ServantofGod† 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes but only in christian science. in normal people science, they are different
2007-06-11 16:50:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋