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Species of locusts or crickets. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1806.

John baptises Christ in the Jordan. Engraving by P. Galle, 1564, after M. van Heemskerck.

Wattle (Acacia sp.) flowering stem with a blue locust and a faggot caterpillar emerging from its nest. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1779.

Boer War: soldiers in camp driving off a swarm of locusts with anything to hand. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Paget.

A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby.

Phaenomena locustarum, praecipue nuperrimarum / praeside M. Jo. Philippo Treunero ... ; referet, relata solvet, soluta ad demonstrationem existentiae Dei transferet Arnoldus Richertz.

Osservazioni naturali intorno alle cavallette nocive della campagna romana / [by Luigi Metaxa and Sebastiano Rolli].

A locust. Wood engraving.

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A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby.

Phaenomena locustarum, praecipue nuperrimarum / praeside M. Jo. Philippo Treunero ... ; referet, relata solvet, soluta ad demonstrationem existentiae Dei transferet Arnoldus Richertz.

Osservazioni naturali intorno alle cavallette nocive della campagna romana / [by Luigi Metaxa and Sebastiano Rolli].

A locust. Wood engraving.