Crop-stripping insects (7)

I believe the answer is:

locusts

(Other definitions for locusts that I've seen before include "Destructive grasshoppers" , "Grasshoppers of warm regions" , "can be a plague" , "Strippers" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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