Apparently locust are the swarming phase of certain species of short horned grasshoppers. I always thought a locust was something entirely different than a grasshopper, but after a little research online, I found that when a group of grasshoppers get together and start multiplying and swarming and eating that is when they are called locust. So when I went outside to find something to photograph I walked past our rather ugly sunflowers that somehow sprouted up in our garden/weed bed and discovered a small swarm of locust were quickly making dinner of the sunflowers. There were probably 100 grasshoppers on the 4-5 sunflower stalks. I can't imagine what it must have been like in Egypt!
