The Grasshopper in the Bible

   The grasshopper is only mentioned 10 times in the Old Testamnet of the King James Version of the Bible. The first reference is Leviticus 11:22 and the last is Nahum 3:17.
   Did you know that Locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers. In the solitary phase these grasshoppers are innocuous, their numbers are low and they cause little economic threat to agriculture. However, under suitable conditions of drought followed by rapid vegetation growth, serotonin in their brains triggers a dramatic set of changes: they start to breed abundantly, becoming gregarious and nomadic. When their populations become dense enough. They form bands of wingless nymphs which later become swarms of winged adults. Both the bands and the swarms move around and rapidly strip fields and cause damage to crops.