The differences between locusts and grasshoppers include: different categories, different body sizes, and different living habits.

1. Different categories

Locusts belong to the order Orthoptera, including species of Grasshopper Superfamily, Grasshopper Superfamily, and Acridoidea. There are more than 10,000 species in the world, and there are 1,000 in my country. The remaining species are distributed in tropical and temperate grasslands and desert areas around the world. Grasshopper is the general name for all insects in the entire class of insects, the order Orthoptera, and the suborder Vertebrata.

2. Different body sizes

Locusts are larger in size. Adult locusts can be up to 15-17 cm long and are yellowish brown in color. Grasshoppers are smaller, about 3-4 centimeters long, and their entire body is yellow-green.

3. Different living habits

In addition to feeding on the leaves of grass, rice leaves, wheat leaves, sugar cane, reeds and other herbaceous plants, locusts also feed on the leaves of other plants. Likes to live in dry and hot places. Grasshoppers mainly feed on young grass and rice leaves, and like to grow in places with suitable temperature and high humidity.

Natural enemies of locusts

1. Frogs

Almost all frogs are natural enemies of locusts. Frogs and locusts live in the same type of ecological environment. Low-lying areas such as reeds and weeds, pits, ponds, ditches, etc. are good places for them to survive.

2. Birds

Birds that eat locusts include swan plover, white-winged gull, field wren, etc., especially swan plover is the most prominent. Birds that eat locusts need a lot of locusts during the brooding stage. Taking common swallows as an example, a pair of parent birds and a nest of chicks will eat more than 16,200 locusts every month.

3. Lizards

Lizards are commonly known as four-legged snakes, aunt snakes, etc. They are distributed all over the world, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. They live in diverse environments and are mainly terrestrial species. There are also arboreal, semi-aquatic, and burrowing species in the soil. Most of them feed on insects. A few species also eat plants. They mainly prey on locusts in spring and summer.