# Locust (disambiguation)

Locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acridida.
Locust or Locusts may also refer to:

## Biology
### Insects

* Cicadas, often called locusts when they swarm
* Magicicada, a genus of cicadas often referred to as "13-year or 17-year locusts"

### Plants

* Plants of the genus Robinia:
** The black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a leguminous tree with toxic pods
* Plants of the genus Gleditsia
** The honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), a leguminous tree with pods having a sweet edible pulp
* Locust bean, fruit of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua)
* African locust bean, fruit of the néré tree (Parkia biglobosa)

## Arts and entertainment
### Films

* Locust (film), a 2015 Russian erotic thriller
* Locusts: The 8th Plague, a 2005 horror movie
* Locusts (2005 film), a 2005 American television film directed by David Jackson and aired on CBS
* Locusts (2019 film), a 2019 Australian independent feature film
* The Locusts (film), a 1997 American film starring Vince Vaughn and Kate Capshaw

### Music

* Locust, an alias of electronic artist Mark Van Hoen from Touch Records
* Locust Music, a Chicago-based record label
* The Locust, a US noise-rock band from California
** The Locust (album)
** The Locust (EP)
* Ghosts VI: Locusts, an album from the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails
* Locust, a 1997 album from the Swedish hardcore / thrash metal band Mary Beats Jane
* Locust, an album from the French metal band Lyzanxia
* "Locust", a song by a-ha from their 1993 album Memorial Beach
* "Locust", a song by heavy-metal band Machine Head from their 2011 album Unto the Locust

### Other

* Locust (comics), a minor Marvel Comics foe of the X-Men
* Locust Horde, the main enemy force in the third-person shooter video game series Gears of War
* Locust, a light BattleMech in the fictional BattleTech universe
* Locust, a Fairy chess piece which captures by hopping over its victim (as in checkers)
* Locust, a quadruped Covenant anti-building vehicle in the video game Halo Wars
* Locusts, a mythological hybrid creature appearing in the Book of Revelation

## Places
### In the United States

* Locust, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Locust, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Locust, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
* Locust, North Carolina, a city
* Locust, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* Locust, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Locust Township, Christian County, Illinois
* Locust Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
* Locust Lake, Pennsylvania
* Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, a tributary in Alabama
* Locust Creek (Grand River), a stream in Missouri
* Locust Creek (Gravois Creek), a stream in Missouri
* Locust Creek (Shamokin Creek), Pennsylvania
* Locust Creek (West Virginia) - see Locust Creek Covered Bridge (West Virginia)

## In the military

* HMS Locust, three ships of the Royal Navy
* USS Locust, two ships of the US Navy
* M22 Locust, an unsuccessful American World War II light tank
* Operation Locust, an Australian World War II commando raid in New Guinea

## People

* Stephen V of Moldavia, Prince of Moldavia from 1538 to 1540
* Rich LeFevre, competitive eater nicknamed "The Locust"

## Other uses

* Locust (car), a kit car inspired by the Lotus 7
* Locust, a GWR Metropolitan Class locomotive
* Locust (finance), a term used in discussions critical of capitalism in Germany
* Locust United Methodist Church, a historic African-American church in Columbia, Maryland
* Locust (ethnic slur), anti-Chinese ethnic slur popularized in Hong Kong