NOTE-the class is intense online â you need to read on your own, take quizzes on your own, and be responsible for posting and reading feedback, outlines, assignments, etc. Therefore, you need to know D2L and have basic computer skills to make this work smoothly. The instructor cannot teach you D2L.
Each locust can eat its weight in plants each day, so a swarm of such size would eat 423 million pounds (192 million kilograms) of plants every day. Like the individual animals within them, locust swarms are typically in motion and can cover vast distances.
MORE INSECT TRIVIA. Locusts, or swarming grasshoppers, breed rapidly and many fly together in search of food. They are not common in the United States anymore, however in Africa, Europe and Asia, a large swarm may eat up to 80,000 tons of grain and other vegetation in a day.