Do black locust tress have thorns?

Go to a doctor

As Geoff Lawton says in his Permaculture Food Forest DVD, "If you have a plague of grasshoppers you ACTUALLY have a deficiency of turkeys". A 1kg turkey will eat 3kg of grasshoppers in a season....

the tree has light gray bark with deep furrows and it gives off a clouded suphur butterflies the we call helicopters

Sloe

aloes normally have short, hard (sometimes black) spines on the leaves and sometimes the stems - although they cannot really be likened to black thorns