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unusual facts about Locust


Locust Point

Locust, New Jersey, originally named Locust Point, an unincorporated area


Baltimore Terminal Subdivision

In 1875 new roundhouses were built at Bailey’s (Ostend Street, near the site of the present-day M&T Bank Stadium) and Riverside Yard on Locust Point.

Boris Uvarov

He worked as entomologist in Stavropol and put locust control on a sound scientific basis.

Christian Älvestam

The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Clean vocals on the tracks “You Come to Me Through Hell” and “The Locust Principles” from The Lustrate Process and "Summoning Majestic War" from Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis).

G. japonica

Gleditsia japonica, the Japanese honey locust, a tree species in the genus Gleditsia

Global Steak

Professor Arnold van Huis at Wageningen University in Netherlands says that locust can produce 1 kg protein from 2 kg fodder compared to a cow needing 10 kg fodder to produce the same amount protein.

Karen Woodbury Gallery

Del Kathryn Barton, Cathy Blanchflower, Robert Boynes, Jane Burton, Michael Cusack, Michael Doolan, McLean Edwards, Kate Ellis, Marie Hagerty, Titania Henderson, Sam Jinks, Locust Jones, Elisabeth Kruger, Rhys Lee, Fiona Lowry, Magda Matwiejew, eX de Medici, Lara Merrett, Jonathan Nichols, Simon Obarzanek, Derek O'Connor, John Pule, Lisa Roet, Kate Rohde, Alex Spremberg, Heather B. Swann, Monika Tichacek and Philip Wolfhagen.

KNLC

KNLC maintains studio facilities located at the church's facilities on Locust Street in the Downtown West section of St. Louis, and its transmitter is located in House Springs.

Locust Lawn

Locust Lawn, now Borden Oaks, a plantation on the National Register of Historic Places near Greensboro, Alabama

Locust Projects

Locust Projects was one of the first spaces to open in Miami's Wynwood area, which has since turned into a vibrant arts district.

Mascoutin Valley State Trail

The trail can be accessed at midpoint near Rush Lake on Lake Road off County Highway E. The trail ends north of Ripon at the junction of County Highway E and Locust Road.

Megacyllene robiniae

The specific name, robiniae, is derived from the New Latin name, Robinia, which is the generic name of the black locust tree, Robinia pseudacacia, on which the larvae feed.

As more and more people use the black locust tree as an ornamental, the range of M. robiniae grows.

MegaFlora tree

The MegaFlora Tree is claimed to be a trademarked name for a fast-growing tree created by Emerald Energy, however no such trademark has been granted, and the process reportedly being used to 'create' the trees is grafting of Pauwlonia trees onto Black Locust rootstock, rather than through any "DNA sharing" or creation of a "hybrid-cross" tree.

Place Denfert-Rochereau

The main square, Place Denfert-Rochereau, is planted with trees, mostly horse chestnuts, maples, and locusts, and there are three named green spaces within it as well: Square Abbé Migne, Square Jacques Antoine, and Square Claude Nicolas Ledoux.

Pogona

Crickets are the most popular insects fed to bearded dragons, but they can also be fed other insects such as black soldier fly larvae, locusts, superworms, waxworms, silkworms, butterworms, grasshoppers, hornworms, and even some varieties of roaches.

Ray Johnson

Released as a B-side on the "Found That Soul" single (2001), "Locust Valley" describes Johnson as "Famously unknown/Elusive and dismantled."

Robinia pseudoacacia

As a young man, Abraham Lincoln spent much of his time splitting rails and fence posts from black locust logs.

Rocky Mountain locust

Another vivid portrayal of the depredations of the locust can be found in Ole Edvart Rølvaag's Giants in the Earth, based in part on his own experiences and those of his wife's family.

Sightings often placed their swarms in numbers far larger than any other species of locust, with one famed sighting estimated at 198,000 square miles (513,000 km²) in size (greater than the area of California), weighing 27.5 million tons, and consisting of some 12.5 trillion insects – the greatest concentration of animals ever speculatively guessed, according to Guinness World Records.

Steffen Basho-Junghans

Steffen Basho-Junghans has released recordings on the German label Blue Moment Arts; the American labels Sublingual, Strange Attractors and Locust; the Italian label Sillyboy; the Australian label Preservation; and Kning Disk in Sweden, appears on several compilations.

Sugartown

In Cherokee, the name was Kulsetsiyi, meaning "honey-locust place" from "kulsetsi" (honey-locust) and "yi" (locative).

Taita Falcon

Threats to the species come from the use of organochlorine pesticide sprays in northern Zimbabwe which may have reduced numbers there, and pesticide-spraying (e.g. through operations to control Red-billed Quelea and locusts) may pose a threat in other regions.

The Christian Harmony

Old Folks Day in Canton has featured singing from the Christian Harmony since the nineteenth century, at the Morning Star Methodist Church, and before that at the Locust Field Church (now the First Baptist Church).

The Locust Years

The Locust Years is the third studio album by the progressive metal band Hammers of Misfortune.

Wayne Winterrowd

Moving from a farmhouse in Pepperell, Massachusetts to Readsboro, Vermont, Winterrowd and Eck devoted themselves to create a garden called North Hill, in which they grew Himalayan blue poppies, Japanese dogwoods, locust trees, magnolia, and stewartias.


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