Ah, yes, the shorthorned grasshoppers are the real locusts, and this fellow has somehow got the name.
But it is not a locust.
It is also called the dog-day harvest fly, but it is not a fly, though it looks considerably like one.
Really, you know, it is a—bug!
Yes, it belongs to the bug order.
Its true name is cicada, and its shrill midsummer song has been famous from the beginning of time.
It looks like an enormous fly, but its mouth parts are the mouth parts of the bug, and in other respects it resembles the members of the bug order, when it is examined closely.
What glassy wings!
Let us spread them out carefully. Four of them it has.