Insects that eat leaves create different kinds of damage ... make them easy to identify once you see them. Sometimes called locusts, grasshoppers feed on leaves but are seldom a serious garden ...

When they first emerge, locusts cannot fly and instead move as hoppers, voraciously eating everything in their ... A tree stripped of most of its leaves by a locust swarm Swarms can travel up ...

The migratory pest can reach plague proportions, and a swarm covering one square kilometer can eat enough food ... regions ...