Locust (disambiguation)
Posted: February 21st, 2009 | Author: Jacob | Filed under: Uncategorized, Website | Tags: bugs, disambiguation, list, locust, Music, nature, online, Wikipedia, world culture | No Comments »From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Locust can refer to:
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In nature
- The locust, a swarming grasshopper.
- The cicada, often referred to as a seven-year locust.
- The magicicada, often referred to as a 13-year or 17-year locust.
- Various plants, especially of the genera Gleditsia and Robinia:
- The honey locust, a leguminous tree with pods having a sweet edible pulp.
- The black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a leguminous tree with toxic pods but useful as a source of nectar for bees for honey making.
- The locust bean, the fruit of the carob tree.
In music
- The Locust, a US noise-rock band from California.
- Locust (musician), an alias of electronic artist Mark Van Hoen from Touch Records.
- Locust Music, a Chicago based record label.
- “Locust”, a song by a-ha from their 1993 album Memorial Beach.
- Locust Abortion Technician, an album by the Butthole Surfers.
Others
- Locusts: The 8th Plague, a 2005 horror movie.
- Locust (community), a pioneering SMS chat community in the UK.
- The Locust (car), a kit car inspired by the Lotus 7.
- The M22 Locust, a light tank.
- Locust, North Carolina is a place in Stanly County; the zip code is 28097.
- Locust Horde, the main enemy force in the Xbox 360 third-person shooter video game Gears of War by Epic Games.
- Locust (mech) is a small mech in the Mechwarrior used mostly for recon.
- Locust (financial), from the German “Heuschrecke”, left-wing terminology for financial investors.
- Locust (software) is an open source search engine software [1].

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