Tree or Insect That Came in a Plague

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Farm, Group 476, Puzzle 2 (Fertile Crescent).

Question is: Tree or Insect That Came in a Plague

and the answer is: LOCUST

Word Meaning:

LOCUST — Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).

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