If you can't harvest them, make Locust bodies disappear quickly.

[Broccoli Clock]

Was underground, ran into a large Locust spawning region. Ok, I can do this, and yes, I did it. I cleared it out, with lots of dead locust bodies around. However, I then got a bunch of drifters attacking me. Fine, I'll repeat the process. No, sadly not, because your attack is stopped by the Locust body, while the drifters' attack is not. I ended up in a cramped location, with a pile of Locust bodies next to me, a number of drifters blocking a exit, but I couldn't hit them with either a spear or a falx. This is not a problem for the drifters though, they seem capable of hitting through Locusts.

As there is no way to harvest/remove Locusts, and because they hamper CQC, could they either disappear a few seconds after death, or allow us some way to remove the bodies.

[LadyWYT]

Better yet, instead of just making them disappear, add a death animation so they can fly apart into pieces when you hit them. No need for collision on the pieces, since they can just disappear when the animation is over.

[D3K01]

i like the idea of making them a gatherable item. they're made of bronze and whatnot so have them gatherable where you can pick them up with a net or something and then after sealing them in a barrel of Limewater have them release bronze nuggets, so it's worth considering whether or not to destroy the locust nests for items or farming them for unlimited metals.